Badly eroded lines etched the wall opposite him, intersecting here and there at blobs of decaying materials.

In the wild, the sterile fronds hold the fern to the bark and trap decaying organic material for nutrients.

The decaying material could cause anything from a bad smell to a kiloton explosion.

Taphonomy, studying how recovered materials have decayed, and what sort of organisms are on the decaying material.

The species develops in a variety of decaying materials.

Water seeped through the wood and replaced decaying organic material, cell by cell, with multicolored silica.

They are saprobic, meaning that they survive by decomposing dead or decaying organic material.

They feed primarily on algae, but also lichens, mosses, or decaying organic materials.

In both subfamilies the larvae are observed to eat the decaying organic material while the adults mainly consume the maggots.

The building remains standing, the decaying materials within, as of January 2012.