This gig certainly isn’t boar-ing. Rachel Lewis, 38, is not your typical taxidermist — she transforms dead piglets into real piggy banks. The Arizona mom of two told SWNS her pre-order list has become ...

With a job like this, he’s got to have tough skin. Despite vitriol online, a self-titled “bad taxidermist” stuck with his niche trade after trying to impress his girlfriend — now, he has amassed a ...

You’ve probably seen them floating around the internet and laughed. We’re talking pictures of horrifically bad, even frightening taxidermy. If you haven’t, just Google something like “really bad ...

The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines taxidermy as “the art of preparing, stuffing, and mounting the skins of animals and especially vertebrates.” Another definition adds the words “with lifelike ...

It’s a sad fact, but reality TV often has very little reality in it. Day-to-day life isn’t always that exciting, after all, and to get the ratings, some networks tend to spice things up a little. TLC ...

Taxidermy comes in a variety of forms, from animals like deer, dogs and bears to duck to other water dwellers, like a prized bass, for example. Alex Wilson can do it all. He's owned and operated The ...

In the late 1980s, Karl Reichardt was sipping his morning coffee in his living room when he caught something out the corner of his eye. A closer look revealed a feather had fallen from one of his ...

Every natural history museum worth its stuffing used to have a whole crew of taxidermists working behind the scenes. And many of the animals now displayed in the National Museum of Natural History's ...

At its worst, a bad taxidermy job is gaudy and unsettling. At its finest, taxidermy turns animals into art, preserved for a lifetime or more. Where a specimen falls on that spectrum is up to the skill ...

David Burtka got the call just before Thanksgiving. After almost three years of waiting, he was getting a unicorn. It was actually a miniature white horse that taxidermist Amber Maykut found for him ...

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 ...