A hiker in a sprawling Palo Alto nature preserve was met with a gruesome sight Christmas Eve: A dead coyote, partially skinned, hanging upside-down from a tree branch. The dead animal appeared to have ...

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A 9-year-old child was attacked by a coyote that snagged a sock off the youngster who was playing a game of hide-and-seek in Oregon, according to authorities. The 9-year-old and a 3-year-old were ...

PALO ALTO — A dead coyote found partially skinned and hanging from a tree at the Arastradero Preserve last month was the work of a juvenile practicing taxidermy on roadkill, police said. A hiker made ...

I photographed Rachel Ahern, owner of Weird City Taxidermy in Round Rock, for a project on Texas taxidermists. Ahern earned a degree in accounting from the University of Texas at Austin before ...