
A year and a half ago, Leila Martinez-Bentley had an unusual request for her colleagues at the Starbucks in Virginia where she worked part time. If any of them came across a dead animal, could they let her know so she could come get it?
Ms. Martinez-Bentley was collecting roadkill and other remains as part of her undergraduate-research assistantship at George Mason University. After gathering raccoons, possums, toads, foxes, and a bunch of turkey bones left over from Thanksgiving meals, she cleaned and prepared them as part of her work with Nawa Sugiyama, an assistant professor of anthropology. Together they were assembling a comparative collection of animal bones.
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