A polar bear that was born in 2006 at Berlin’s Zoological Garden was hand-reared, captivating an international audience. Named Knut, the bear drowned when he was only five years old, likely as a ...

What do you do with more than 130 arsenic-tinged taxidermied animals with significant historical and academic value, languishing in a now-closed museum that may or may not be a public health hazard?

Seoul Grand Park sparked controversy after deciding to taxidermy the critically endangered Siberian tiger 'Taebaek,' who died on the 19th of last month. Some citizens are protesting, urging the ...

Inside the Jamuna Bridge Regional Museum in Tangail's Bhuapur, a child was staring at a stuffed owl, mesmerised, as he wondered if it was a real bird. "Ma, is it real? Why doesn't it move?" the child ...

This story appears in the August 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. Not every feat of taxidermy qualifies as art. But as the art of taxidermy has endured and evolved, it has given form to a ...