{"id":864688,"date":"2026-08-22T19:06:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T19:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/864688\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T19:06:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T19:06:17","slug":"the-googly-eyed-stuffed-fox-revealed-to-be-a-thylacine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/864688\/","title":{"rendered":"The googly-eyed &#8216;stuffed fox&#8217; revealed to be a thylacine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When a badly stuffed &#8220;fox head&#8221; was advertised by a UK auction house, James Cranfield quickly worked out that it was a &#8220;priceless&#8221; head of a thylacine.<\/p>\n<p>The taxidermist and collector won the two-way bidding war for &#8220;the find of a lifetime.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>How important is this specimen of the now-extinct Tasmanian tiger?<\/p>\n<p>Guest: James Cranfield, taxidermist and owner of Cranfield&#8217;s Curiosity Cabinet in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When a badly stuffed &#8220;fox head&#8221; was advertised by a UK auction house, James Cranfield quickly worked out&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":864689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,2728,63,426102,128,84570,84569,338],"class_list":["post-864688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-au","tag-auction","tag-australia","tag-james-cranfield","tag-science","tag-tasmanian-tiger","tag-thylacine","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=864688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/864689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}