Why is it more common to find skulls of dead animals standalone rather than skulls and their skeletons?

Question

Why is it more common to find skulls of dead animals standalone rather than skulls and their skeletons?

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Answer 1

Over time other animals in the area will pick away at the dead animal’s body, carrying off the bones (and the meat on them) to eat somewhere else. Then the smaller bits and pieces will then get washed away by rain or blown away by wind. Meanwhile, the skull is bigger/heavier than other bones so they are harder for other animals to carry, less likely to be moved by weather, and more likely to remain recognizably intact.