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Teams at the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt began dismantling the mastodon in October 2019.
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The Founding Fathers' Favorite Mastodon Is Coming Home for a Visit

Here's how you ship the skeleton of long-dead megafauna across the Atlantic.
Jessica Leigh Hester November 6, 2019
The taxidermy of "Alfred," a Western Lowland gorilla who ( in life ) once inhabited Bristol Zoo.
Bristol, England

Bristol Museum Natural History Collection

It houses a menagerie of wondrous taxidermy specimens from around the world, including the remains of a famous gorilla.
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A Dead, Decomposing Whale Once Toured the United Kingdom

The Tay Whale brought together science, spectacle, and hucksterism in the quest to turn a buck.
Jessica Leigh Hester October 16, 2019
Primate specimens at London's Grant Museum of Zoology.
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In London, Natural History Museums Confront Their Colonial Histories

It's not as easy as returning stolen statues.
Sabrina Imbler October 14, 2019
Jarnblocket.
Stockholm, Sweden

Järnblocket (Iron Boulder)

A prehistoric geological oddity tucked behind Stockholm's natural history museum.
Chi-Chi eternally munching a bamboo stalk.
London, England

Chi-Chi the Giant Panda

The beloved beast's taxidermy remains sit in the Natural History Museum's cafe.
Mummified bison showing full body.
Washington, D.C.

Mummified Bison

The 28,000-year-old specimen is remarkably intact.
Somewhere within the halls of the Strasbourg Zoological Museum, you might stumble upon a hoax.
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Zoology’s Favorite Hoax Was an Island Rat That Hopped on Its Nose

Harald Strümpke didn’t just create a lost archipelago, he created a sensation.
Sabrina Imbler September 3, 2019
The rat king.
Altenburg, Germany

Mauritianum

This natural history museum houses one of the world's largest rat kings, a terrifying jumble of tangled rodents.
One of the leopards with its peacock prey.
New York, New York

Asiatic Leopard Diorama

One of the most dazzling dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History is also one of the oldest.
This is pretty much what it was like.
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The 'Moby-Dick' Musical Is Swimming With Sea Shanties and Nurdle Ballads

We watched it with a whale anatomist to see if the cetacean science holds water.
Jessica Leigh Hester August 2, 2019
Closeup of the elephant herd.
New York, New York

African Elephants Diorama

This magnificent herd of stampeding elephants has been frozen in time for over a century.
Jackals, marabou stork, and raven awaiting their turn.
New York, New York

Scavenger Taxidermy Diorama

This morbid scene depicts the Darwinian drama of death on the African savannah.
A taxidermy hippo.
Tervuren, Belgium

Royal Museum for Central Africa Natural History Collections

A fascinating and enormous collection of natural history exhibits stained by a dark colonial legacy.
Hitchcock's "stone book."
Amherst, Massachusetts

Hitchcock Ichnological Cabinet

This exhibit is one of the largest and most well-preserved collections of Jurassic-era trackways in the United States.
The taxidermy "puma-pard."
Tring, England

Tring Natural History Museum Hybrid Animals

A menagerie of curiously bred creatures.
The okapi diorama.
New York, New York

Okapi Taxidermy Diorama

This impressive scene portrays the elusive forest giraffe of Central Africa.
The desert scene.
New York, New York

Libyan Desert Diorama

This poignant display is now a memorial to these regionally extinct species.