1.   Japan claims that essential data on the Minke population can only be obtained from dead whales.

2.   A seventh dead whale was seen floating in southeastern waters, but the carcass was not recovered.

3.   But there have been reports of dead whales with plastic bags in their stomachs, and it is possible that they choked to death on them.

4.   Like a dead whale, this lumpy titan of a tax boondoggle can never again do what it was designed to do.

5.   Once he crawled inside a dead whale to see how it felt.

6.   Strahan has been a fixture for years at Boston public places, waving a photo of a dead whale and raising money for his shadowy environmental group, GreenWorld.

7.   The ship came across a dead whale and George thought it would be a good target for gunnery practice.

8.   But the joint study released Thursday by the Navy and U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service was based on examinations of the corpses of five of the six dead whales.

9.   He said further tests on the dead whales would be carried out in the United States, a process that could take months.

10.   In videotapes of sharks scavenging on a dead whale, Klimley says, they clearly concentrate on the fat tissue, ignoring the rest of the animal.