As if extinction were impossible ... only against other re-creations but also against the world’s best real-animal taxidermy. She won the top prize in the re-creations category.

This story appears in the October 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Taxidermy isn’t for the faint of heart. Widely considered an art form, the process of mounting animal skins can ...

Garget Long-extinct animals, such as the Ichthyostega - an ... the red admiral butterfly, huia taxidermy (a recently extinct bird from New Zealand), a freeze-dried platypus, a giant sloth fossil ...

In a discovery that may reshape our understanding of Japan’s extinct wildlife ... deep knowledge of wolves led her to spot an ...