When a badly stuffed “fox head” was advertised by a UK auction house, James Cranfield quickly worked out that it was a “priceless” head of a thylacine.
The taxidermist and collector won the two-way bidding war for “the find of a lifetime.”
How important is this specimen of the now-extinct Tasmanian tiger?
Guest: James Cranfield, taxidermist and owner of Cranfield’s Curiosity Cabinet in the United Kingdom.