carcass

As scavengers, vultures always look for the next carcass.

The carcass—containing the head, forelimbs, and front part of the animal—was discovered encased in a chunk of ice in 2020 near the Badyarikha River in northern Siberia, above the Arctic Circle.

And we can lay all this suffering at the feet of the pitiful carcass of what used to be the Republican party.

No one knows how the fungus arrived in North America, but it has spread rapidly across the U.S. and Canada, leaving legions of bat carcasses in its death march.

“Virus will survive on the carcass surface — not for long at 100 degrees — but temperature and acidification pretty rapidly neutralize it in the carcass, at least influenza viruses.”