This story appears in the October 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Taxidermy isn’t for the faint of heart. Widely considered an art form, the process of mounting animal skins can ...

and mounting animal skins to give them a lifelike appearance. For a mammal as massive as an elephant, this process is anything but quick. It takes many days of precision, patience, and skill to br ...

Today, mounting evidence from more than a dozen studies points to a person, or people, catching the virus from a wild animal or animals at the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan, China, the city at ...