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New research on how vultures affect time of death determinations
Researchers at Texas State University’s forensic anthropology research facility, one of the country’s five “body farms,” have discovered that failure to take into account the role of vultures may have affected time of death calculations in homicide investigations. See press coverage here. The scientists observed a flock of vultures reduce a corpse that had been …
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