My six-year-old daughter jumped up and down with excitement, her eyes sparkling as she motioned toward the gray squirrel lying at the base of a cedar tree. “I got it! I got my first squirrel,” she ...

Some trophies just don’t deserve a trip to the taxidermist for a shoulder mount, yet they don’t deserve to be tacked to the tool shed, either. Boiling a skull doesn’t actually involve boiling, but ...

Every taxidermy mount begins with a story. Clients inevitably unfold the tale of their hunt to Whitetail Taxidermy’s Don McArthur. He’s heard thousands of such stories: so many, in fact, that he has ...

CONOVER, Wis. — The studio of Lax Reproductions is walled with trophy fish, mostly muskies, that are still swimming in the lakes where they were caught. While they appear as natural as any traditional ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service was contacted by the Delbridge Museum of Natural History in June about recommendations for its taxidermy collection, said Dan Coil of the ...

Most Minnesota taxidermists must be generalists, adept at big-game, fish and bird mounts. In 2014, there were 687 licensed taxidermists in Minnesota. Adam Zwick worked as a carpenter before he became ...