1.   Meanwhile each new tide brings in more dead dolphins.

2.   Hundreds of dead dolphins have been washing up on shores in the Mediterranean recently, leaving scientists puzzled as to the cause.

3.   The number of dead dolphins washed ashore in Britain and France has increased sharply in the past five years, according to a study commissioned by Greenpeace.

4.   A few years ago, he was given the difficult task of looking for viruses in severely rotted tissue taken from dead dolphins to determine why they died.

5.   In all, the team found five dead dolphin calves with fractured ribs, ruptured lungs and spinal dislocations.

6.   Police arrested eight Turkish fishermen a week ago after finding two dozen dead dolphins tangled in their nets.

7.   Eight dead dolphins have been washed ashore along the Romanian Black Sea coast in the past two weeks after oil slicks polluted the beaches, an official said Thursday.

8.   Scientists are trying to learn why dead dolphins are washing up on northwest Florida shores.