Juergen Freund / Men dancing in a Tatanua Masks, an image of the soul of the deceased. When a person dies, by Malagan tradition people dance in the shallow waters to try to drive evil spirits or taboos of the dead awa...

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Funeral tree for deceased babies, Tana Toraja. Toraja is an ethnic group in West and South Sulawesi. The culture revolves around death with funeral ceremonies an important part of daily life. Indonesi...

Ashley Cooper / Maggots on a dead sheep

Joao Burini / Blue iridescent scales of a Nymphalid butterfly (Epiphile orea) magnified 11x, deceased insect found in Piedade, Sao Paulo, Brazil. South-east Atlantic Forest.

Joao Burini / Scales of a Owl butterfly (Caligo sp) magnified 28x, deceased insect found in Tapirai Sao Paulo, Brazil. South-east Atlantic forest.

Richard Robinson / Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) and two Northern giant petrel (Macronectes halli) feeding on a recently deceased Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) calf, around six metres long off the...

Richard Robinson / Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) and two Northern giant petrel (Macronectes halli) feeding on a recently deceased Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) calf, around six metres long off the...

Richard Robinson / Antipodean albatross (Diomedea antipodensis) and Northern giant petrel (Macronectes halli) feeding on a recently deceased Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) calf around six metres long with disti...

Richard Robinson / Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) feeding on a recently deceased humpback whale calf (Megaptera novaeangliae), around six metres long off the coast of Raoul Island in the Kermadec archipelago...

David Tipling / Frieze depicting a Cockerel from a tomb at Xanthos in Lycia, Turkey from between 470 and 460 BC. It was a Lycian tradition to sacrifice cockerels and make other sacrificial offerings to the deceased,...

David Tipling / Wall art from an excavated room known as the 'Vulture Shrine', with the Vulture removing the head / soul of the deceased. Catal Huyuk, an ancient site, dating back to 6500 BCE still being excavated at...

Jean E. Roche / Right back foot of a dead Badger (Meles meles) from above, Camargue, France.