Is the red X necessary?

If there was no red X, would the guy who drives by in the road kill collection truck just leave a dead wombat on the side of the road?

And, yes, I do have the license plate.

Smells Like KGB

Many people will admit that a brief waft of skunk scent while driving down a country highway is not altogether unpleasant. I assure you, such is not the case when standing this close.

Now Somewhere Out in the Black Mountain Hills of Dakota

Oh wait...I'm thinking of someone else.

Half Deer

It took me a long time to figure out just what had happened here. I imagined the back half of this deer wedged under some bumper driving down A1A until I realized this deer was probably not road kill at all but more likely the victim of poaching. Still, I was once more amazed by the veritable rainbow of color that exists inside ungulates. Lucky this website is not smell-o-rama enabled.

Organ Doe-nor

I've always been fascinated with the internal landscape of living creatures. Road kill makes that part of the external landscape.

Wings

Usually, I am more interested in the biology of roadkill, but I was drawn to the aesthetic qualities of this specimen on the campus of the University of Sydney.

Our First Guest Contributor!

CJ writes in to say:

"As a kid, my dad would point out various roadkill...He was an expert in identifying the most awful .
When I was very small he would say...hey look over there...what a wierd place for that racoon to have decided to take a nap..on his back on the side of the road.
He was really a nice guy ...swear it. This always amuses me. I now do this to people. I do know it's a wierdo thing to do but still ...can't help it.
I love animals so this really strikes people as strange when I say excitedly...hey look, a wild boar...they look and get upset...it's dead ...roadkill.. gross. Why did you make me look at it? "