Taxidermy can be a, understandably, unnerving thing for some people. When done poorly it's a shameful disrespectful thing to the animal involved. But, as in the case of the American Museum of Natural History, when you have skilled artists treating the subjects with respect you get incredible results. These imagesare from a year long restoration process that wraps up on Oct 27th, the 154th birthday of Theodore Roosevelt.

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