Advertisement Check your subscription status, update your details and more. Activate your subscription Patrick Reymer In 1881, zoologist John Murdoch took part in an expedition to Point Barrow, Alaska, at the northernmost tip of the US. The goal was to conduct a two-year, unbroken observation of meteorological and magnetic phenomena and to document the nature […]
The bearskin caps worn by soldiers outside Buckingham Palace now cost more than £2,000 each, figures from the Ministry of Defence (MoD) show.The cost of the ceremonial caps, made from the fur of black bears, soared by 30% in a year, according to figures revealed in response to a Freedom of Information request from animal […]
With its googly eyes, lumpy forehead, and awkward almost-smile, the strange, taxidermied fox head at the antique market was funny enough to throw down 50 quid on. When the buyer later sold it at auction, they were stunned to see it go for 1,000 times more than they’d paid for it. That’s because this was no fox. […]
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Jennifer Hall is a paleoartist, which means she makes scientifically accurate illustrations of animals that died long before humans were even a twinkle in evolution’s eye. But amidst the science, she works in a little whimsy too. In an illustration she made last year of a newly discovered, super-massive dinosaur species called Dreadnoughtus (pictured above), […]
Animals 24-7News on dogs, cats, horses, wildlife, zoonoses, & natureJune 8, 2024 By Merritt Clifton DOWNIEVILLE, California––The November 8, 2023 discovery that Patrice Miller, 71, had been eaten by a black bear inside her remote Sierra County rented home, 50 miles northwest of Lake Tahoe, was bad news for bears everywhere, whetting the fear of […]
Sarah Rochis – Contributing Photographer / Nolan Storey – COO Leslie Dalton Roger is in the midst of skinning out a crow as a gift for a friend as we begin our interview in her studio. She is a professionally licensed taxidermist from New Orleans. Raised in the French Quarter and Mid-City, Leslie now calls Uptown […]
By Bethanie HPublishedTwo black bears—one with black fur and one with cinnamon-colored fur—got playful in front of a trail cam in the Yukon wilderness. The video by Yukon Wildlife Cams shows highlights from a 10-hour window in the Yukon, a territory in the northwest corner of Canada that borders Alaska. At the start of the […]
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SectionsMore from Smithsonian magazineOur PartnersSubscribe to Smithsonian magazine and get a FREE tote. Matt Blitz “Ahhh, this polyurethane is setting up too quick,” exclaims Allis Markham, proprietor of Prey Taxidermy in Los Angeles. “Sorry, I’m molding bodies right now,” she adds, apologizing for the interruption in our conversation.Markham makes a living as a very busy […]