Figure 7.

Decomposition of carcass 2wallow. Top to bottom, left to right; numbers in brackets represent the days post-mortem. Fresh. Day 3: Moist decomposition of the head has started. Day 7: Skin slippage on the head; decomposition fluids purge of mouth and nose. Early decomposition. Day 9: Blue discoloration of the abdominal skin; bloating or post-bloating not clearly visible. Advanced decomposition. Day 11: Massive maggot activity on the head; slippage of the abdominal skin. Day 15: Impressive surge in maggot activity on the whole carcass. Day 21: Maggot masses and foam cover the whole carcass; large numbers (thousands) of maggots migrate away from the carcass to pupate, and eventually drown in the water. Day 34: Reduced number of maggots; maggot activity has led to a large decrease in biomass; first exposure of bones due to colliquation of soft tissues. Skeletonization. Day 44: Skeletonized bones of head and limbs; soft tissues start to liquefy and dilute in the water. Day 51: Tissues continue liquefying. Day 227: While head and limbs are skeletonized, abdominal tissues have either liquefied or formed a soap-like adipocere. Day 261: The piece of adipocere has broken into several pieces, but otherwise has not changed much. Day 367: Carcass displaying a combination of skeletonization and advanced decomposition (adipocere).