Brooke Weston’s workshop is a bright, pretty studio stained with paint and piled with what looks like the prop closet for a community theater that for some reason needed an unusual number of stuffed squirrels. Outside the window, a balcony holds a bucket containing scraps of wood and fur and a flowering tree — even […]
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Museum Finds Real Human Skull in 150-Year-Old Taxidermy Display
For more than a century, the taxidermy diorama “Arab Courier Attacked by Lions” has stood in Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Depicting a man on camelback fending off Barbary lions, the bizarre display has intrigued—and repulsed—generations of visitors. Throughout all those years, however, the piece… Read more… Gizmodo