BURTON, MI -- April Payne, 22, of Davison has been skinning birds for years. Payne, an animal care naturalist at the For-Mar Nature Preserve and Arboretum, mounted an immature Sharp Shinned Hawk ...

My six-year-old daughter jumped up and down with excitement, her eyes sparkling as she motioned toward the gray squirrel lying at the base of a cedar tree. “I got it! I got my first squirrel,” she ...

I'm standing around a plywood work table in a backyard in Seward Park on a cloudy Saturday afternoon with a scalpel in one hand and a can of Pabst in the other, working up the nerve to slice into the ...

The new documentary Stuffed follows several taxidermists, who share how their love of nature inspired them to create posed sculptures from dead animals. The film’s tagline, “the wonders of art and the ...

A small museum in California contains a remarkable taxidermy collection. For just three hours a week, a small museum in southern California opens its doors to display one of the world's largest and ...

OZARKS JOURNAL (draft article) SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — They entered through the convention hall lobby - a mounted menagerie of mammals, birds and fish whose owners paused in the natural light to primp ...

Some sports and hobbies don't get much coverage in the national media. Taxidermy and the competitions among its enthusiasts certainly don't. "Many, many of us just love to hunt and fish," Blomquist ...

A mounted wild boar’s head, covered in fake blood. African porcupine quills, garfish teeth and alligator bones fashioned into jewelry. Tightrope walkers, suspension acts, mummified ducklings and a ...