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Recent Examples of cadaversIn relation to the lawsuits, the cadavers that had been donated had already been used for research and teaching purposes.—
Saleen Martin,
USA Today,
20 Aug. 2026 Maclean admitted to buying remains from Lodge that had been stolen from Harvard Medical School and entering the morgue to examine cadavers, the DOJ said.—
Meredith Deliso,
ABC News,
19 Aug. 2026 In a recent study, researchers examined the left and right branches of the vagus nerve in 30 human cadavers in attempt to better map the nerve.—
Mary Randolph,
Scientific American,
11 Aug. 2026 For medical students, practicing with real cadavers would remain important.—
Danny Robb,
JSTOR Daily,
16 July 2026 The woodcut birth figures contained in these books were not images drawn from observation—pregnant cadavers for anatomical drawing were hard to come by—but were instead abstracted diagrams of the chaotic diversity of laboring bodies.—Literary Hub,
16 June 2026 Scientists identified one of the modern cadavers as a minke whale, or Balaenoptera acutorostrata, that measured about 10 feet (3 meters) long.—
Mindy Weisberger,
CNN Money,
12 June 2026 There’s no alternative; there are too many tasty cadavers, plus squirrel pelts coughed up by hawks in the trees after they’ve been picked clean of meat and tissue.—
Dan Chiasson,
The New York Review of Books,
22 Apr. 2026 More than a dozen city, county and state agencies worked together, deploying drones, using dummies as cadavers, and taking on the roles of victims, triage and others to make the drill as realistic as possible.—
Mark Prussin,
CBS News,
18 Apr. 2026
And just over a year after that, the Morgans landed back in the news after authorities found 56 decomposing corpses inside another one of their businesses, South Deering’s South Chicago Chapel.
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Caroline Kubzansky,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Aug. 2026
Gein murdered at least two women, as well as illegally exhumed and mutilated multiple corpses, in the 1940s and 1950s.
Though researchers have observed evidence of humans hunting large megafauna in later periods, the discovery suggests that early humans processed elephant carcasses more systematically.
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Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
14 Aug. 2026
This spring, three blue whale carcasses washed up on the Newfoundland shore, spurring a panic about whale explosions.