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

Name: TED-Ed: Why Didn't This Body Decompose?
Genre: Animation
Released: 2021-04-06
Duration: 5 min
Cast: Alexandra Panzer

2021

⏱️ 5 min

📅 Released

🌐 EN

Animation

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?

Cast

Alexandra Panzer

Narrator (voice)

Crew

Director

Thomas Johnson, Ivana Bošnjak Volda

Writer

Carolyn Marshall

Production

TED Ed