Skip to content
TED-Ed: Why Didn't This Body Decompose? poster

TED-Ed: Why Didn't This Body Decompose? (2021)

Animation5m

Overview

It may not appear very lively six feet underground, but a single teaspoon of soil contains more organisms than there are human beings on the planet. Why didn't this 2000-year-old body decompose?

Ivana Bošnjak Volda, Thomas JohnsonDirector

TED-Ed: Why Didn't This Body Decompose? (2021)