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Rabbit hemorrhagic disease virus, by contrast, got more deadly over time, probably because the virus is spread by blow flies feeding on rabbit carcasses, and quicker death accelerated its spread.

The fastest, 730 millimeters per second — or a little over one and a half miles per hour — mimicked a blow fly.

And, of course, there are the flies that feed on dead bodies — the 1,100 different species of blow flies, favorites of forensic detective shows.

Seven centuries later, investigators still look to blow flies, maggots and other insects for evidence.

The necrobiome, as Benbow called it, represented all the organisms involved in decomposition: bacteria and fungi and nematodes, blow flies and flesh flies, rodents and vertebrate scavengers.