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However, new research shows they also took advantage of opportunities to scavenge.

From Science Daily ● May 5, 2026

The study's findings suggest the birds are doing more than just tracking the hunters: they're using navigation and spatial memory techniques to scavenge with sophistication.

From Barron's ● Mar. 12, 2026

When they aren’t thieving, bald eagles also scavenge from roadkill or help themselves to free food found in human garbage or at the town landfill.

From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2026

Hermit crabs - so named because they scavenge shells to live in - can regularly be seen on the beaches of the popular tourist destination.

From BBC ● May 11, 2025

Lucky Strike organized scavenge parties to take care of the dead, burning them or burying them according to their rituals, and making the place safe from disease.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi

That same pigment in your skin also naturally scavenges free radicals in response to damaging environmental pollution from industrial sources and automobile exhaust fumes.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2023

Oxygen scavenges methane, so there was a rapid disappearance of methane; Earth lost that early methane greenhouse effect.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 26, 2023

The local artist scavenges twigs and bark and reassembles the tree scraps into objects that resemble parts of actual trees.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 27, 2023

Munyoki’s mother, Martha Waringa, a 35-year-old single parent who also scavenges, says her son’s wages will help pay his seven siblings’ school fees when classes resume.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 20, 2020

They are Vorticellæ; and every one of those bells, by the ciliary current on its rim, is scavenging the water - till a tadpole comes by and scavenges it. 

From Prose Idylls, New and Old by Charles Kingsley

Mothers feed babies with scraps scavenged from trash cans.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 6, 2026

Specialized occupational therapy tools at the clinic were replaced by scavenged substitutes: buttons, small glasses, pieces of wood or pipe now help patients relearn activities of daily living.

From Salon ● Mar. 29, 2025

Huge lorries dumping directly onto the ground amid a sea of waste, as birds scavenged.

From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2025

The LaPrele site in Converse County preserves the remains of a killed or scavenged sub-adult mammoth and an associated camp occupied during the time the animal was butchered almost 13,000 years ago.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 27, 2024

He took clothes from the lost and found and scavenged the garbage for day-old bread.

From "The Invention of Hugo Cabret" by Brian Selznick

He took on various jobs, from construction to scavenging for waste and selling things at a street stall, before becoming a food deliveryman.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

Some irregular food items such as chicken and pig were also detected in the samples, suggesting that wolves are also scavenging from human waste disposal sites.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026

A video circulating on social media shows a man expelling a soldier and another official from his home after finding them scavenging around.

From Barron's ● Jun. 28, 2026

That scavenging behavior may also increase their risk of catching and spreading the virus across Antarctica, according to the researchers.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 12, 2026

There, circling above us, were the scavenging birds.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz