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How To Cape a Buck for Taxidermy

Ben Mears is a professional taxidermist who has been preparing deer for mounting and preservation for many years. In these videos, he explains how to cape your deer for a shoulder mount.

Why You Should Grill Your Steak Frozen

In fact, it'll probably be the best steak you ever grilled.

Why I Don’t Drink Budweiser…and Why I’m Not Alone

Budweiser has always been far more about marketing than beer. The founder of Anheuser Busch, Adolphus Busch, refused to drink his own brew, calling it “that slop” (he was German, of cou…

Central Texas Fisherman Stumbles Upon Massive Water Snake

Just remember: when you need to steady yourself on a tree branch, you may get more than you bargained for.

How to make an Egyptian mummy: Scientists discover original embalming recipe

The ancient concoction shows people were making mummies in Egypt thousands of years earlier than previously thought.

15 Creative & Unconventional Approaches to Taxidermy

Collect this idea In general, when we think of taxidermy we automatically tend to think of men who like to hunt and mount their catches on their walls as trophies. In recent decades, taxidermy has fallen out of favour as it has garnered a reputation for being somewhat old fashioned and antiquated. However, a new …

Londoners Are Learning to Eat Their Taxidermy. Sort of.

CC image from Flickr The trend waxes and wanes, but for the past few years, the hottest thing in hipster home-decorating has been taxidermy. Everything from tattered deer mounts to stuffed mice sell for astronomical amounts to urban dwellers looking to up their cool credibility. Now it seems, hipsters have figured out those antlers and hides were once actually part of animals that could be eaten. According to an article in The Daily Beast with the ridiculous title “Edible Taxidermy: It’s A Good…

What is TAXIDERMY and why do scientists do it?

There are many ways of preserving, or saving, an animal's body for study.

Bicycle Taxidermy: So You Never Have to Say Goodbye

Bicycle Taxidermy by Regan Appleton: So you never have to say goodbye.

Hide: A Taxidermy Story

10 California girls take on the World Championships of Taxidermy...

Preserve Your Taxidermy Specimens

reserved hunting trophies aren't as common as they once were, but there are still mounted examples of taxidermy hidden in the corners of basements and self-storage facilities all over the country.

‘Bike taxidermy’ makes for the most eco-friendly hunting trophies ever

All the cool of taxidermy; no dead animals involved.

Bird taxidermy: the Australian specialists who love birds in life and death

From grieving pet owners to TV shows and major museums, demand for taxidermists remains strong. And birds are a mainstay

10 Artful Taxidermy Pranks Worth Stuffing Your Dog For

Win a Custom Built Backpack! From Hilltop Packs

We are super excited to wrap up the prototype stage of our backpack line. Should you win we will completely customize a backpack just for you.

Half taxidermy, half robot: Why UC Davis built this crazy realistic robo-bird

Researchers at the University of California, Davis are building taxidermy bird robots on wheels, designed to discover more about the mating habits of the survival-challenged sage grouse. They're part of a long-running research project which dates all the way back to 2003.

Birds' V formation mystery 'solved'

Scientists say they have solved the mystery of why birds fly in a V formation, by tracking critically endangered birds that were being trained to migrate.