The website Bad Taxidermy features photographs of animal pelt preservation gone seriously wrong. ... because some sick-minded taxidermist thought to place a gorilla's torso on a giant fish body.

The Internet loves awful taxidermy. The people behind the Tumblr Crappy Taxidermy, established as a blog in 2009 and featuring a deep archive of torturous photographs, have a book deal. An ...

I can’t help but imagine that most fishermen and women, at least once in their lives, has caught at least one fish that was special enough to consider getting it mounted. To some anglers the ...

PEORIA -- The World Taxidermy and Fish Carving Championships, sponsored by Breakthrough magazine, a taxidermy trade publication, will be held at the downtown Peoria Civic Center from May 16–20.

Bad taxidermy - welcome to the world of grinning cats, pistol-packing opossums and balloon horses ... Crap Taxidermy by Kat Su, Cassell Illustrated, £7.99 ( octopusbooks.co.uk) ...

At the web magazine Fish With JD, a section is reserved for photos of "taxidermy gone bad." My favorite is a sturgeon head watching over diners in a restaurant.

For him and many others, it's "an instinctive desire to replicate or try to reestablish the beauty of nature," says the organizer of the just-finished World Taxidermy & Fish Carving Championships.

Outdoors column: Fish taxidermy is still something of a sideline for Andy Johns. But the 27-year-old West Ashley residents feels there's a correlation between trying to replicate a customer's trophy ...