Beetle juice turns corpses into cozy nurseries—here's how

Analysis of bodies tended by burying beetles reveals that they are coated in very particular preservative fluids.

Like many parents around the world, burying beetles provide a cozy nursery for their offspring. Unlike most parents, however, Nicrophorus vespilloides beetles build that nursery by plucking fur and feathers from small animal carcasses and then coating the bare bodies with special secretions.

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