During his first expedition to Africa for the Field Museum, in 1896, Carl Akeley, who would later be recognized as the father of modern taxidermy, collected the skins of more than 500 animals ...

Police found Henry Slivers sitting on the sidewalk a couple of blocks away from the Buena Vista Museum. He was petting a taxidermied dingo that had been taken from the museum. Police spotted ...

Lt. Col. John Henry Patterson sold the bodies of the Tsavo lions to the Field Museum in Chicago for $5,000 where they were stuffed and put on display. The Field Museum, #GN87713_7C ...

Carl Akeley had been hired by the then two-year-old Milwaukee Public Museum as a taxidermist, at a time when stuffed animals looked nothing like themselves in real life. They looked like corpses ...