News of the weird: mystery animal

[MikeP]

Check this out:
http://woai.com/news/local/story.aspx?c ... 6F6C31975E

Keep in mind that I've already seen other photos from Texas and the Northeast that show this same or similar canine-like creature, so we're almost certainly talking about a heretofore unknown species.

Where's Mulder and Scully when you need them![:0] To succinctly quote Frohike of the Lone Gunmen: "Weirdness."

[Quite Life]

That is so gnarrly. It is a crossbread of some sort. Like some mad scientist is cooking up some genetic engeneering over at Rice U. That is so cool where is my Browning Hunting Rifle (win.270)?

[devildog]

Maybe it's a devildog! [;)][:D][:D]

[savethewave]

Interesting. Until the Native Americans killed them all off about 11,000 years ago, there was a hyaena-like scavenger native to North America, and it lived alongside the American Lion, Cheetah, and giant ground sloth.

[ExRat]

"It's most likely a an as-of-yet undiscovered North American species invaluable to the scientific community and zoologic study."

BLAM!!! So they shoot it[?]

To me it just looks like a ratty-assed dog.

[iposse]

For some reason this story reminds me of the famous urban legend of the Mexican Rat:

http://www.snopes.com/critters/lurkers/mexpet.htm

[phillyidol]

Does anybody know the name of the animal that lived in Australia till about 100 years ago. They killed off the whole lot. I kinow I'm wrong but it was something like the tazmanian lion. It looked alot like this thing.

Ok, looked it up. Its the tazmanian tiger.

[2Nu]

[quote][i]Originally posted by iposse[/i]
<br>For some reason this story reminds me of the famous urban legend of the Mexican Rat:

http://www.snopes.com/critters/lurkers/mexpet.htm
[/quote]
Remember the "Chupa Cabra"?

http://www.gxpmall.bizland.com/Chupa_Cabra.htm

This is too funny folks[:o)]

[phillyidol]

I work with some puerto rican guys and we call the oldest one chupa cabra. He does not like it much. They believe in that thing!

[ExRat]

Philly,

The Tasmanian marsupial you are thinking of was called a thylacine. It looked like a big striped dog. I think the last one died in captivity died in 1937.

[phillyidol]

Thats the one! It was in the news that they might clone dna samples and bring back the species. And I think someone is going to clone a mamoth. Thats cool being able to bring back something thats gone.

[toe_jam_on_toast]

[quote][i]Originally posted by phillyidol[/i]
<br>Thats the one! It was in the news that they might clone dna samples and bring back the species. And I think someone is going to clone a mamoth. Thats cool being able to bring back something thats gone.
[/quote]


wasn't there a long time dead squirrel post earlier?