Think all there is to taxidermy is stuffing an animal? Think again. Since the days of William Hornaday and Carl Akeley, taxidermy has been a scientific art: It requires practitioners not only to ...

But the way Carl Akeley practiced it at the turn of the 20th century, taxidermy was a thrill ride of a job, full of exotic safaris, brutal killing and bloody encounters with the very creatures he ...

Carl Akeley had plenty of close encounters with animals in his long career as a naturalist and taxidermist. There was the time a bull elephant had charged him on Mount Kenya, nearly crushing him ...

As it must to all men, Death came to Carl Ethan Akeley, 62, sculptor, hunter, taxidermist, engineer. It found him where he had often been before, in the heart of Africa. Weakened by fever and a ...

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 ...

Announcing plans for one of the galleries in the new Milwaukee Public Museum, officials noted a key current exhibit will make the move to the new building: "Carl Akeley's famous Muskrats diorama ...