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Recent Examples of carcass
Feeding and living on the carcasses were myriad creatures, large and small, including sea cucumbers, squat lobsters and saltwater clams.
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Adithi Ramakrishnan,
Los Angeles Times,
14 June 2026
The zone then funnels carcasses to the seafloor, and very little sediment movement at those depths means that the carcasses stay exposed to scavengers.
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Mindy Weisberger,
CNN Money,
12 June 2026
The whale carcasses are home to a large community of jellyfish, brittle stars, bone-boring worms, and bivalves.
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Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
10 June 2026
In these cases, the whale bones managed to fossilize before scavengers and microbes could demolish the massive carcasses.
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Meghan Bartels,
Scientific American,
10 June 2026
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Adithi Ramakrishnan,
Los Angeles Times,
14 June 2026
The zone then funnels carcasses to the seafloor, and very little sediment movement at those depths means that the carcasses stay exposed to scavengers.
—
Mindy Weisberger,
CNN Money,
12 June 2026
The whale carcasses are home to a large community of jellyfish, brittle stars, bone-boring worms, and bivalves.
—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
10 June 2026
In these cases, the whale bones managed to fossilize before scavengers and microbes could demolish the massive carcasses.
—
Meghan Bartels,
Scientific American,
10 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for carcass
corpse
Noun
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The family project is interrupted by the appearance of a corpse – that of an annoying neighbor (played by John Carroll Lynch) with a habit of buzzing his woodchipper in the middle of the family’s filmmaking efforts.
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One concern of mine was corpses.
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“Carcass.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carcass. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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