I found a dead turtle on the bank.

In 1999, 450 dead and injured turtles washed up on the Texas coast, a 14 percent increase over 1998.

David Wellesley, a 47-year-old shrimper, said he doubted that shrimpers were responsible for all the dead turtles.

"But the first time they find one dead turtle on the beach, we're all bad boys and we're not using our T.E.D.'s."

The paper also reports that government records indicate there have been 491 dead birds, 227 dead turtles and 31 dead mammals, including dolphins.

Buster is feeling abandoned by Mother, his now dead turtle, when Oscar returns, looking for his weed.

Price tossed the dead turtle onto the ground beyond the piazza.

Fishermen wave a dead pelican, a few dead turtles, some dead fish.

As he fled, a dead turtle floated off the ground and flew across the schoolyard to smack him in the back of his fat red neck.

Adult males have been found feeding on dead turtles and dead fish but are also attracted to flowers.