El Chupacabra or A Most Unfortunate Badger? You Decide

08/10/2011

A face only a mother could love.

Minnesotans are befuddled over an unidentified dead mammal that was spotted last week on a country road. The creepy-looking, all-white creature has five claws on its front paws, long toenails and odd dark tufts of hair on its back and has quickly prompted speculation that Minnesota is home to the legendary chupacabra, KSAX-TV reports.

Lacey Ilse was driving close to her near Alexandria, when she first saw the dead carcass."We saw something in the middle of the road, and we knew it wasn't a dog or a cat, because it didn't have hair," Ilse told KSAX-TV. "It had a clump of hair and all the rest was just white skin. Its ear was all mis-shaped. To me, it looked half-human," 

Chupacabras*, or "goat suckers," are creatures said to live in Mexico, Puerto Rico and in different parts of the United States and are described as something between a dog and a wolf. Most wildlife experts believe the weird-looking animals are coyotes afflicted with mange, caused by an infection of tiny parasites that results in their hair falling out and leaving them with shriveled skin. 

[Learn more about the Legend of the Chupacabra]

The body of the Minnesota chupacabra suspect has been frozen officials may soon do a DNA test to hopefully identify the mysterious roadkill. What do you think it looks like? Whatever the creature may be, it definitely has a face for radio.

[VIDEO: Watch a family who claims to have been chased by a Chupacabra]

*Yours truly has found that when said with dramatic flair, "CHUPACABRA!" is also a word that, when yelled into a large crowd at night, can elicit a great flurry of activity.

 

 

Comments

[Pablo Rosales]

Is a really weird animal, I always wonder if the chupacabras was a real animal or just something people made up. Well now we will see if this is the real chupacabras or just another animal that looks like the chupacabras.

[brianne]

Probably this animal is a mutant scientest probably made and it excaped.

[Aine]

Please hire some decent copy writers. This article looks like it was transcribed by an ill-educated 10 year old.

[Mary]

Looks like a mutant dog.

[Morgan]

We already figured out that chupacabras are just loose/wild animals with mange. My dog got mange, and his hair did fall out and if he did run away, I bet some people would say he was a chupacabra. -__-

[Sierra]

Who cares what it is, people should stop worrying about it and leave it alone. It's dead so it obviously can't hurt anyone and if there are more its obviously not a threat or else people would have been freaking out about live ones instead of dead. If the chupacabra exists, then great..but there is probably a reason it's never officially been seen and we should let it go.

[moises]

pssss bn bueno aqui en venezuela ay muchos chupa cabras de otras especies

[Jacky vazquez]

I think it a hurt dog that some one never took good care of.

[Annie]

La. "La" chupacabra.

[Hidemi]

C´mon, that is the corpse of a poor dog!!!!

[A.F. for Animal Planet]

Genetic testing should clear up the question as to this animal's species.

I say run a DNA analysis and wait for the results to come in before jumping to any conclusions.

[Marcia]

Could be a malformed or crippled dog...I wonder about the back legs more than the front...how had this animal been able to walk? Had it dragged itself onto the road? How about a little DNA testing or something?

[JR]

Definitely looks like a badger ... with a terrible skin issue. Compare the ear placement and look, as well as the front paws/claws.

[Hannah]

It looks like a bull terrior sorta like with over grown claws

[PATRICIA DAVIS]

I THOUGHT THE CHUPACABRA WAS VERY DIFFERENT LOOKING THAN THIS. IT MAINLY WALKS ON 2 LEGS, AND HAS BIG TEETH. I GUESS WE WILL KNOW WHEN THEY DO BLOODWORK AND WORK ON THE DNA.

[Country Girl Clutch]

It looks like a Badger to me... :)

[tom]

i'd say it look's like a cross between bull terrier and badger?maybe it cud work?

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