00:00When your heart stops, the dinner bell rings.
00:04You think you're alone in death?
00:06The first guests arrive within seconds.
00:10Meet the Caliporidae, the blowfly.
00:14From miles away, they smell your chemical surrender.
00:18They aren't just scavengers.
00:20They are architects of a high-speed nursery.
00:24They follow a biological schedule so precise it's never been late in 300 million years.
00:33Here is the genius payoff.
00:36Nature has built a biological chronometer that no killer can tamper with.
00:42By measuring the exact stage of a maggot's growth and the local temperature,
00:48forensic scientists can calculate the exact hour of a murder.
00:53You can smash a watch.
00:55You can delete a browser history.
00:58But you cannot stop the clock of death.
01:02In the silent world of the dead, the insects are the only witnesses that always tell the truth.
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