carcass
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The carcass of a four-month-old calf, swarming with flies, lay half-devoured by hyenas.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
A meatpacker is the plant that slaughters the animal and breaks the carcass down into the cuts that reach shops or restaurants.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
“We’d have the carcass of Head Start,” Garvin said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
The juvenile then ate the smaller pieces, while the adults consumed the remaining carcass but left the scattered fragments behind.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026
The decaying carcass of a horse was spotted bobbing near one of the intake cribs.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
The results support a recent hypothesis that Neanderthals may have regularly eaten animal carcasses containing fly larvae.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
Notably, neither scavengers nor flies that fed on the supposedly poisoned carcasses have perished -- creatures that typically succumb after consuming poisoned animals.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
But he was found not guilty of criminal damage - the charge that related to abandoning the carcasses.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
In the spring of 2023, as epic winter snows melted, horse carcasses emerged along the shores of South Tufa and nearby Navy Beach.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026
“They look like giant wood lice. They eat carcasses of big fish and whales.”
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
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