We had such high hopes.
Mythical, bloodsucking 'chupacabra' found in Texas just a plain old coyote
SAN MARCOS, Texas - The results are in: The ugly, big-eared animal found this summer in southern Texas is not the mythical, bloodsucking chupacabra. It's just a plain old coyote.Via Hot Air.
Biologists at Texas State University announced Thursday night they had identified the hairless doglike creature.
KENS-TV of San Antonio provided a tissue sample from the animal for testing.
"The DNA sequence is a virtually identical match to DNA from the coyote," biologist Mike Forstner said in a statement. "This is probably the answer a lot of folks thought might be the outcome. I, myself, really thought it was a domestic dog, but the Cuero Chupacabra is a Texas Coyote."
Phylis Canion and some of her neighbours discovered the 18-kilogram bodies of three of the animals over four days in July outside her ranch in Cuero, 145 kilometres southeast of San Antonio.
Canion said she saved the head of the one she found so she could get to the bottom of its ancestry through DNA testing and then mount it for posterity.
Chupacabra means "goat sucker" in Spanish, and it is said to have originated in Puerto Rico and Mexico.
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