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

The Scottish government said the disease was also affecting wild bird populations elsewhere in the world, and it had published updated advice on the reporting, collection and safe disposal of wild bird carcases.

From BBC • Nov. 16, 2022

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

But mostly they live on roots and berries and mice and ground squirrels and dead birds and animal carcases something else has killed.

From Boy Scouts in Glacier Park The Adventures of Two Young Easterners in the Heart of the High Rockies by Eaton, Walter Prichard