carrion-eating

The actual cleaning work is done by a horde of carrion-eating Dermestid beetles, which eat away all the flesh.

Bare Bones Taxidermy 2009

And deal with the fact that some of us get enjoyment out of the carrion-eating birds coming to roost exactly where they were predicted to.

Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » 1.4 Billion 2008

Power will co-produce the miniseries with Canada's Prodigy Pictures, based on John Wyndham's best-selling 1951 novel about an invasion of mobile, carrion-eating plant monsters.

Improving on the original Ed Gorman 2009

And deal with the fact that some of us get enjoyment out of the carrion-eating birds coming to roost exactly where they were predicted to.

Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » 1.4 Billion 2008

Read at your own peril, but afterwards you will have a renewed appreciation for dogs, vultures, and other carrion-eating wildlife. via Everlasting Blort

YesButNoButYes: Stinkymeat 2006

As it is a carrion-eating bird, it was often linked in mourning activities and renewal ceremonies.

Archive 2005-09-01 2005

As it is a carrion-eating bird, it was often linked in mourning activities and renewal ceremonies.

Condors in Prehistoric California 2005

Fox Cable News, like the jackal-headed, carrion-eating god, Anubus, leads the old man through the land of the dead: Through the now dried-up swamplands of his youth ... through the limbo of suburbs and exurbs that displaced it ...

The United States of Dixieland: Corporatism, Jesus, and the Death Genes 2005

The idea that vultures might be lending a helping beak to the mortuary ritual was suggested by wall paintings depicting these carrion-eating birds swooping down on headless people.

The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005

Larvae found in the hair of the cadavers came from several generations of flies, indicating that the bodies were watched over for several days to keep away carrion-eating animals and to allow them to be covered naturally by sand.

Sacrificed to the Sea God 2003