The smell of Swinburne Island is the smell of the birds: layers of guano, decaying fish, salt water.
Of fishes that have sunk to the lake floor, scavengers, feeding on the top surface of the decaying fish, cause the dispersal of bones to be less orderly, and breakage of bone.
This is how Julia Child described Marseille in 1953, when she was living on the Vieux Port: "The air was brisk and breezy, and the harbor was redolent of sewage and decaying fish.
He once was accused of hiding decaying fish heads in a former landlord's house; another time he was charged with stealing nine purses from a church choir while dressed as a woman.
From the first I had no problem picturing (and would have preferred to eat decaying fish and live, rained on, under a bridge) what would happen if harm came to one of them, should indeed anything this side of murder slash suicide occur, although if that did it was anyone's guess which event would come first.
Only a small number of bioluminescent systems have been investigated for their respective luciferin and the corresponding luciferase, the best known being the bioluminescence of fireflies from the United States, a little crustacean living in the Japanese sea (Cypridina hilgendorfii), and decaying fish and flesh (bacterial bioluminescence).
And what can decaying fish teach us about evolution?
Preeti Desai found the decaying fish on a beach in Texas City, and asked Twitter for help.
The results with decaying fish, he adds, "can be applied to the interpretation of soft-bodied fossils in general, and particularly to determining their true place in the tree of life".
Decaying fish, turtles, and eels are reportedly the source of an odor there.
