South Texas chupacabra update

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S.A. Zoo Weighs-In on Chupacabra Debate

Is it a Chupacabra or not? WOAI.com is getting answers about a bizarre animal shot in Elmendorf.

Bones from a mystery animal shot by an Elmendorf rancher have been taken to an expert from the San Antonio Zoo. But can he tell what it is?

John Gramieri, the Mammal Curator at the San Antonio Zoo, doesn't think it's the Chupacabra. It's definitely unique, but he thinks it's a mix between a dog and a coyote.

Devin MacAnally shot the Elmendorph Beast after it ate dozens of his chickens. The animal has a blue-grey coloring, is almost hairless, has a short mane and large fangs.

�It's clearly a member of the dog family, a family candidate,� explains Gramieri.

Gramieri says he can't tell what type of canine, but that it could be mixed with coyote that has very weird teeth.

�For whatever reason, this animal had a very poor fusion in the front here, so it allowed that lower jaw to spread in a way that is not normal for any mammal, actually,� Gramieri told WOAI.

But what about the creature's color? A blue-grey hairless coat that's unlike any dog or coyote?

�It apparently had some very bad skin ailment,� said Gramieri. �And that skin ailment made it go bald except for the top of its body.�

So there�s no Chubacabra endorsements from the San Antonio Zoo, but MacAnally continues to believe it's something extra special. He knows its one man's opinion versus his, so he'll wait for the DNA results due back in the next few weeks to find out exactly what it is.

�I want this one to be a new species - or at least something that somebody has never seen in a cross between two different ones,� MacAnally said with a smile.

MacAnally says in the past few weeks he's gotten calls from other people claiming to have seen similar creatures around their properties. That's possible, according to the Gramieri. Gramieri believes that there are more out there.

Yet again theres no picture??????? You'd think that even if it was just a new sup-species of something you would have taken hundreds of pictures to recieve opinions and help from others in your field. Instead all he offers is, "it has a blue-grey hairless body"

They wonder why folk like myself have no interest in anything they have to offer? nice find and all but it just looks too much like the same old situation.

Guy finds/kills beastie, guy takes beastie to doc who gives all kind of cryptic clues and sends bits for "test". Guy and doc send out press release stating "we're waiting for the results in a few weeks" A few weeks later...... nothing, nada, zip, squat. Well apart from two now much wealthier jokers.

The person I'm going to believe is the one that finds something, and brings the actual creature with them to the press conference and invites anyone in the scientific community to take as close a look as they want.

[edit on 14-9-2004 by feygan]

you know what else had a blue hairless body? that wierd thing walking around in maryland.

Thanks for the update enrage.Hopefully the DNA shows it to be something remarkable.

faygen, click on the link at the top of the news story, its video, and shows video of the animal after it was shot as well as the bare bone skull. this thing defently looks like what a chupacabra may be baised on.

What thing walking around in Mayland?