In Brooke Weston’s world of fantasy taxidermy, dead deer double as dollhouses. Peaked roofs pop out of torsos. Staircases spiral up antlers like vines. The effect is both charming and a little creepy ...

Don McDermott finishes up a white-tailed deer at his shop, Big Game Taxidermy, 1001 Elm St. in Eudora. If you talk about the color of Picasso or the realism of Rembrandt at a cocktail party, many will ...

In one corner of J&K Taxidermy's front office, a crayfish nips at a small crappie. In another, a crow sitting on an aspen branch scolds a black bear. Over here, a trio of snow and blue geese cups ...

A small white mouse gazes up with its beady, black eye, sporting a brightly colored outfit. It grasps a piece of fruit in its tiny paw, almost becoming too human. At first glance, one would never know ...

From a Godfrey home, artist Steve Bollini turned taxidermy into a master’s craft ...

Ah, where to start? Maybe (given the bloody fish head in the goblet) by noting that rogue taxidermists are fervent animal lovers. "As humans, we so rarely get to interact with animals on such an ...

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The competition is heating up in downtown Wichita. Believe it or not, it has nothing to do with basketball. It’s the annual Taxidermists Convention. They say this is an art form, and many people don’t ...

For nearly two centuries, a point of Chicago’s civic pride has been its connection to the natural world. One of our mottos, “Urbs in Horto,” extols ours as a city in a garden. Yet not everyone in the ...

As Dian Cooper took the small brush and calmly stroked the lion's mane, you could almost hear the beast purr. Neither the cat nor Cooper flinched as the primping continued. A grin of satisfaction ...

Compliments on tastes in art make many hunters a little edgy, at best. After all, hunting -- big game hunting in particular -- is stereotyped with masculinity synonymous with Monday Night Football and ...