A recently dead harbor seal at Letnikof Cove is missing its head. Well, most of it. The skull bones are still there and intact. 

The phenomenon has appeared a few times throughout the state.  The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s regional stranding coordinator said they have not quite figured out what is killing the seals, or getting to them after they’ve died. 

“We have seen it before. I just don’t know what’s going on,” Mandy…

Rashah McChesney is a multimedia journalist and editor who has reported and edited newsrooms from the Deep South to the Midwest to Alaska. For the past decade, she has worked in collaborative news as the...