Sophia is your community news reporter covering the North Coast of San Luis Obispo County, including Los Osos, Morro Bay, Cayucos, Cambria and San Simeon. Pupping season has officially begun with the ...
Sophia is your community news reporter covering the North Coast of San Luis Obispo County, including Los Osos, Morro Bay, Cayucos, Cambria and San Simeon. Both elephant seal guides and visitors are ...
Hundreds of elephant seals lounged in the sunshine on a San Simeon beach on Thursday, occasionally rousing from their naps to toss sand on themselves or bark at passing tourists. Those who looked ...
The Friends of the Elephant Seal Visitor Center exhibit displays the routes three well-traveled seal athletes took and their performance stats. Kathy Curtis Friends of the Elephant Seal The world’s ...
The remains of a female elephant seal were found near a popular viewing area on Highway 1 near San Simeon last fall — it had been shot in the head, its tail fins cut off and chest cavity cut open, ...
Necklace, an elephant seal with plastic wrapped around her neck, rests on the beach at high tide on May 6, 2024. A Marine Mammal Center team was able to remove the plastic after isolating and sedating ...
Winter is peak time for some of the West Coast’s biggest wildlife shows—elk herds in misty meadows, eagles stacked in ...
Jordan Peter Gerbich of Santa Maria pleaded guilty Monday, Dec. 21, 2020, to killing a northern elephant seal in San Simeon in September 2019. Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department A former Santa ...
The world’s attention may be turning its focus to human athletes at the Olympics in Paris, but elephant seal observers are celebrating our own local seal athletes. A new exhibit at the Friends of the ...