Another Savage Mutilation on Bixby Ranch coastline
The images depict the badly decomposing and scavenged carcass of a seal, common local sea life in Santa Barbara County and a favorite snack of sharks, due to the energy-rich fatty flesh of the pinniped.
A gaping hole in the rotting corpse appears to have been the product of a deadly assault by California’s most feared ocean predator – the Great White Shark. The bite diameter lends credence to the theory that this attack was committed by a juvenile shark, just beginning to learn how to eat large mammals, with a tremendous career of ocean terror still lying ahead of it…