Taxidermied Animal Head With Googly Eyes Sells For Over $80K After It Turned Out To Be A Species That's Been Extinct For Close To A Century

Taxidermied Animal Head With Googly Eyes Sells For Over $80K After It Turned Out To Be A Species That's Been Extinct For Close To A Century

You never know what you’re going to find when you’re browsing the aisles of an antique store. That was the case with one person who thought they’d stumbled across the taxidermied head of a fox, but they ended up making much more than they paid for it after discovering it was actually an animal that’s […] The post Taxidermied Animal Head With Googly Eyes Sells For Over $80K After It Turned Out To Be A Species That’s Been Extinct For Close To A Ce…

A £50 "Fox Head" Bought at a Market Just Sold for £60,000 — Because It’s an Extinct Tasmanian Tiger

Someone paid £50 for a taxidermy “fox head” at a West Country antiques fair because its slightly ridiculous googly eyes made them laugh. Weeks later, it sold at auction for £60,000 — after two sharp-eyed bidders independently realized it wasn’t a fox at all, but the head of a thylacine: the extinct Tasmanian tiger. A Mislabeled Rarity The mount had been catalogued at Bristol’s Auctioneum Ltd with a guide price of just £30–50, filed among general…