Taxidermy is the practice of preserving an animal’s skin and mounting it on a sculpted form to recreate the animal’s natural appearance. Only the skin is preserved, while muscles and internal organs ...
Preserved animals sit side by side in silence, forming what appears to be a lifeless zoo or a fragment of forest enclosed in glass.
The first Friday of each month at 12:15 p.m. in the Mary Duke Biddle Room, the David M. Rubenstein Rare Books & Manuscripts Library turns to a new page in the bible of North American ornithology: “The ...
Standing between two racks of whale bones in the National Museum Collection Centre in Granton, Professor Andrew Kitchener, Principal Curator ...
Feathers, foragers, photography and fantastic adventures await visitors of all ages at the 53rd annual KVAL Sportsmen’s and ...
The coastal marten is about the size of a ferret and lives in heavily wooded forests.
Scientists from Oregon State University looked at coastal martens in the town of Klamath for three months ...
A 6-foot-tall taxidermy black bear was stolen off a porch in Ganges Township on Jan. 19.
The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our ...
"She had been in the lab and recognized how to identify fishes, and said that's something valuable that we have to preserve.” ...
The strategy, known as synthetic biology, is gaining momentum globally as a conservation tool and human health solution, ...