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
“We’d have the carcass of Head Start,” Garvin said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
Scientists do not know whether early humans hunted the animal or collected its bone from a carcass that was already dead.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 27, 2026
I made my first stock after Thanksgiving, when my mom threw a turkey carcass at me and said, “Use this.”
From Salon ● Jul. 2, 2026
I pointed with my lips across the fire to Minerva, who was absorbed in chewing through a bag of porcupine quills she’d harvested last week when we ran across its carcass.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
But in the Kimana reserve, AFP journalists saw six carcasses on Wednesday -- some fresh, others older -- with rangers also observing partial paralysis, preventing the animals from standing.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
Their remains may then have remained exposed, allowing scavengers to feed on the carcasses before the bones were eventually buried and fossilized.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026
But he was found not guilty of criminal damage - the charge that related to abandoning the carcasses.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
It attracts carrion beetles and flesh flies, which lay their eggs on rotting animal carcasses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
Nothing ever rode the Gytrash: it was always alone; and goblins, to my notions, though they might tenant the dumb carcasses of beasts, could scarce covet shelter in the commonplace human form.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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