Bad Taxidermy and Victorian Monsters

After searching for examples of "bad taxidermy" and expecting to find images of moth-eaten, utterly unbelievable Victorian inventions I came across a modern artist who works along the same lines. However, the work of Enrique Gomez de Molina is much more beautiful, shocking and believable (to an extent) than I was expecting. Unfortunately, Molina as recently been arrested for using the skins of endangered animals which goes against the entire principle of our themes. However, his images are still useful for our research and I began to consider how we could combine different animals to either bring back extinct animals or aid existing ones. What are the endangered animals lacking that could be provided by another animal? How could animals be altered to exist in a new urban habitat?    

After finding Enrique Gomez I continued to look for examples of bad Victorian taxidermy. Instead I found only the name of an avid collector of these artifacts from the same era and the book he wrote about them. Ulisse Aldrovandi wrote "The Monstrorum Historica", "A compendium of all known human and animal monstrocities", the illustrations from which are hilarious... and a little scary. Supposedly this man had in his vast taxidermy collection several dragons and even a mermaid but sadly I couldn't find any photographs. 

It struck me that it might be interesting to attempt to make a modern "Monstrorum Historica" using animals which have become monstrous by adapting to the urban world. Although it might be more fun to make a less serious version using slightly comedic adaptations.