The Evolution Store

It’s not a sentiment that most people share, but for the tireless staff at The Evolution Store, this is absolutely true. Taxidermy is an art form, and when done right, even the dead can be given new life, its former beauty restored, preserved, and ultimately put on display. Most people see just the end result, and many of them don’t even want to know the process behind the taxidermy process. It’s not pretty, and it takes a long time.

It all starts with a dead animal, and this is where the ugly part takes place. The beauty of taxidermy cannot be achieved without decay, and the trick is to control that decay so the parts you need are preserved while the rest is broken down by bacteria and/or insects. 

Maceration is the process by which flesh is cleaned from bones with the use of bacteria. After the skin and most of the flesh is removed, the rest is submerged in water under carefully monitored conditions so that bacteria can break down the fleshy bits. This can take days or even weeks depending on the size of the animal. With smaller animals, the use of dermestid beetles can be used, as they eat dead flesh and leave the bones alone. Once the soft organic tissue is gone, the remaining bones are rinsed and whitened, usually with a peroxide solution.

Hello friends!

You may have seen that we just launched our Brand New Website! And you may well have visited it and said to yourself "Gosh, this is different!" And if you are not the type who simply shrugs something like that off, you might be wondering what we are up to. The new site doesn't seem to have that much stuff on it yet, and it looks pretty different from the old one... What's the deal?

Well, we were having some trouble with our old site. It didn't work too well on a phone, and it had grown so large that we were having a hard time keeping track of what was on it or not. Quite a few different people had worked on it over the years, some of whom were better than others at describing the items or inputting the text and data without typos or errors. If you ever ordered from us and had us contact you to let you know that we actually didn't have the item you ordered - even though our website insisted that we did - well, you know what I am talking about.

And it was not secure enough. We found out last year that somebody had forced their way into the backend of our old site and rooted around. We don't know of anyone who was seriously affected, but we took it very seriously and spent an enormous amount of money and effort on data forensics and contacting people whose information might possibly have been compromised. We beefed up the security on our old site as much as we could, but the best option we had was to rebuild the whole thing using a much more secure platform.

So that is what we did. We are adding lots of stuff to it going forward, but we are working hard to make sure that we don't lose track of which items we really have or not. We are rebuilding from the ground up with stronger, clearer information and hopefully a better-working interface. It is a work in progress, and we hope you will bear with us as we work out the kinks.

Please send us feedback or ideas and let us know what you think!

Best Regards,

Julianna Stevens President

The wait is over! The brand new Evolution Store website is now live! We’re still uploading new products and updating everything, so bear with us! We’ll be at 110% in no time!