Like other carrion feeders, it plays an important role in its ecosystem by disposing of carrion which would otherwise be a breeding ground for disease.

Silphidae is a family of beetles that are known commonly as large carrion beetles, carrion beetles or burying beetles.

This is a flower that really, really smells pretty nasty and is designed, again, evolved, to look like carrion.

The turkey vulture ( Cathartes aura ), also known in some North American regions as the turkey buzzard (or just buzzard), and in some areas of the Caribbean as the John crow or carrion crow, is a vulture that is the most widespread of the New World vultures.