carcases
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Bianucci et al suggested that Perucetus might have browsed on coastal fish and shellfish, or scavenged carcases, as some sharks do.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 29, 2024
Mammals that scavenge dead bird carcases, including foxes, otters and seals, have also been infected.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2023
Phronima, insect-like zooplankton, can often be found inhabiting the carcases of other creatures The Tara is currently on the next stage of its mission, exploring planktonic life in the Arctic.
From Nature ● Sep. 4, 2013
The water gives off an unendurable reek, "the sweet compacted smells of dead vegetation and rotting animal carcases".
From The Guardian ● Jul. 13, 2012
All that morning they worked skinning the deer, to save the valuable hides for moccasins, thongs, and similar uses, and quartering the carcases which the lion had not molested after killing them.
From Boy Scouts in Glacier Park The Adventures of Two Young Easterners in the Heart of the High Rockies by Walter Prichard Eaton
