Dead bodies keep moving for more than a year after death, study says
Skip to main content
  • Home
  • Economy
    • Aviation
    • Bazaar
    • Budget
    • Industry
    • NBR
    • RMG
    • Corporates
  • Stocks
  • Analysis
  • World+Biz
  • Sports
  • Features
    • Book Review
    • Brands
    • Earth
    • Explorer
    • Fact Check
    • Family
    • Food
    • Game Reviews
    • Good Practices
    • Habitat
    • Humour
    • In Focus
    • Luxury
    • Mode
    • Panorama
    • Pursuit
    • Wealth
    • Wellbeing
    • Wheels
  • Epaper
  • More
    • Subscribe
    • Videos
    • Thoughts
    • Splash
    • Bangladesh
    • Supplement
    • Infograph
    • Archive
    • COVID-19
    • Games
    • Long Read
    • Interviews
    • Offbeat
    • Podcast
    • Quiz
    • Tech
    • Trial By Trivia
    • Magazine
  • বাংলা
The Business Standard

Wednesday
February 08, 2023

Sign In
Subscribe
  • Home
  • Economy
    • Aviation
    • Bazaar
    • Budget
    • Industry
    • NBR
    • RMG
    • Corporates
  • Stocks
  • Analysis
  • World+Biz
  • Sports
  • Features
    • Book Review
    • Brands
    • Earth
    • Explorer
    • Fact Check
    • Family
    • Food
    • Game Reviews
    • Good Practices
    • Habitat
    • Humour
    • In Focus
    • Luxury
    • Mode
    • Panorama
    • Pursuit
    • Wealth
    • Wellbeing
    • Wheels
  • Epaper
  • More
    • Subscribe
    • Videos
    • Thoughts
    • Splash
    • Bangladesh
    • Supplement
    • Infograph
    • Archive
    • COVID-19
    • Games
    • Long Read
    • Interviews
    • Offbeat
    • Podcast
    • Quiz
    • Tech
    • Trial By Trivia
    • Magazine
  • বাংলা
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 08, 2023
Dead bodies keep moving for more than a year after death, study says

World+Biz

TBS Report
29 March, 2021, 11:30 am
Last modified: 29 March, 2021, 11:39 am

Related News

  • 709 female migrant workers die in five years: study
  • Bruce Gowers, director of American Idol, passes away at 82
  • Death toll in Russian missile strike in Ukraine rises to 40
  • China reports 59,938 Covid-related hospital deaths since 8 December
  • Elderly lady dies in road accident

Dead bodies keep moving for more than a year after death, study says

These results may have ramifications in a variety of areas, including pathology and criminology

TBS Report
29 March, 2021, 11:30 am
Last modified: 29 March, 2021, 11:39 am
Representational Image
Representational Image

Human bodies can move for more than a year after being declared dead, according to an Australian scientist. 

Over a 17-month period, researcher Alyson Wilson witnessed and photographed the movements of corpses, reports the Big Think.

At the Australian Facility for Taphonomic Experimental Research (AFTER), she and her team reportedly centred a camera for 17 months, taking photographs of a corpse every 30 minutes during the day. The corpse moved continuously for the entire 17-month period.

She disclosed the surprising details of her discovery to Agence France Presse.

These results may have ramifications in a variety of areas, including pathology and criminology.

"What we found was that the arms were significantly moving, so that arms that started off down beside the body ended up out to the side of the body," Wilson said.

The researchers had anticipated some movement during the early stages of decomposition, but Wilson went on to say that their constant movement had taken them by surprise.

"We think the movements relate to the process of decomposition, as the body mummifies and the ligaments dry out," she added. 

Wilson flew to check one of the bodies stored at the "body farm," which is located on the outskirts of Sydney, once a month as it was the team's focus. 

Her findings were published in the journal, Forensic Science International: Synergy.

Implications of the study

Understanding these after-death movements and decomposition rates, according to the researchers, may help better predict the time of death. Police, for example, would benefit from this because they would be able to assign a timeframe to missing people and connect it to an unidentified body.

 According to the team, "understanding decomposition rates for a human donor in the Australian environment is important for police, forensic anthropologists, and pathologists for the estimation of PMI to assist with the identification of unknown victims, as well as the investigation of criminal activity."

While scientists haven't found any evidence of necromancy. . . the discovery remains a curious new understanding about what happens with the body after we die.

Science / Top News

dead / bodies / move / death

Comments

While most comments will be posted if they are on-topic and not abusive, moderation decisions are subjective. Published comments are readers’ own views and The Business Standard does not endorse any of the readers’ comments.

Top Stories

  • RMG turns to India from China to get cheaper man-made yarn
    RMG turns to India from China to get cheaper man-made yarn
  • Country's revenue earnings were Tk40,000cr more in last fiscal: Finance Minister
    Country's revenue earnings were Tk40,000cr more in last fiscal: Finance Minister
  • The world's richest person is trying to head off a succession battle
    The world's richest person is trying to head off a succession battle

MOST VIEWED

  • Aerial photos showed the extent of the damage in more densely populated and hard-hit areas like Hatay city in southern Turkey. Image: IHA/AP/picture alliance
    Turkey-Syria earthquake: Rescuers press on into third day
  • The Chiatibo glacier in the Hindu Kush mountain range is seen in Pakistan, October 16, 2019. Neil Hall/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
    Glacial lake floods threaten communities in Asia, South America
  • FILE PHOTO: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban speaks during a media briefing in Budapest, Hungary, December 21, 2022. REUTERS/Marton Monus/File Photo
    'Fences protect Europe', Hungary's Orban says ahead of EU migration summit
  • A view of the intensive care unit of the Iskenderun collapsed state hospital following an earthquake in Iskenderun, district of Hatay, Turkey, February 7, 2023. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier
    Doctor says bodies 'everywhere' in collapsed Iskenderun hospital
  • A Postal Museum employee looks at the new definitive stamps depicting Britain's King Charles, unveiled by the Royal Mail, in London, Britain February 7, 2023. REUTERS/Maja Smiejkowska
    New British stamp with image of King Charles unveiled
  • An aerial view shows damaged and collapsed buildings following an earthquake, in Kahramanmaras, Turkey February 7, 2023. REUTERS/Stringer
    Next day crucial for saving many lives in Turkey, Syria

Related News

  • 709 female migrant workers die in five years: study
  • Bruce Gowers, director of American Idol, passes away at 82
  • Death toll in Russian missile strike in Ukraine rises to 40
  • China reports 59,938 Covid-related hospital deaths since 8 December
  • Elderly lady dies in road accident

Features

Photo: Reuters

A tragedy that will also shake up the region's geopolitics

13h | Panorama
Nimah designed by Compass Architects- Wooden tiles. Photo: Junaid Hasan Pranto

Trendy flooring designs to upgrade any space

1d | Habitat
Benefits of having high ceilings in your new home

Benefits of having high ceilings in your new home

23h | Habitat
Each Reverse Osmosi plant can produce approximately 8,000 litres of drinking water a day for around 250 families. Photo: Sadiqur Rahman

A drop in the ocean of persistent water crisis

1d | Panorama

More Videos from TBS

30% companies see double-digit growth even in hard times

30% companies see double-digit growth even in hard times

15h | TBS Insight
Challenging time waiting for RMG

Challenging time waiting for RMG

22h | TBS Round Table
"Full Moon Meditation" organized by Department of Theater and Performance Studies, University of Dhaka

"Full Moon Meditation" organized by Department of Theater and Performance Studies, University of Dhaka

22h | TBS Graduates
10 cricketers who have played over 400 T20 matches

10 cricketers who have played over 400 T20 matches

22h | TBS SPORTS

Most Read

1
Photo: Courtesy
Panorama

From 'Made in Bangladesh' to 'Designed in Bangladesh'

2
Master plan for futuristic Chattogram city in the making
Districts

Master plan for futuristic Chattogram city in the making

3
Photo: Collected
Crime

Prime Distribution MD Mamun arrested in fraud case

4
Leepu realised his love for cars from a young age and for the last 40 years, he has transformed, designed and customised hundreds of cars. Photo: Collected
Panorama

'I am not crazy about cars anymore': Nizamuddin Awlia Leepu

5
Photo: Collected
Startups

ShopUp secures $30m debt financing to boost expansion, supply chain

6
ICB to withdraw Padma Bank investment as return eludes
Banking

ICB to withdraw Padma Bank investment as return eludes

EMAIL US
[email protected]
FOLLOW US
WHATSAPP
+880 1847416158
The Business Standard
  • About Us
  • Contact us
  • Sitemap
  • Privacy Policy
  • Comment Policy
Copyright © 2023
The Business Standard All rights reserved
Technical Partner: RSI Lab

Contact Us

The Business Standard

Main Office -4/A, Eskaton Garden, Dhaka- 1000

Phone: +8801847 416158 - 59

Send Opinion articles to - [email protected]

For advertisement- [email protected]