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Out in southern Texas, a rather mysterious creature was recently found on the property of Phylis Canion.

Could this be the almost mythical chupacabra?

Texas A&M University as well as National Geographic are supposed to be investigating this “creature”.

To our admittedly untrained eyes, this chupacabra looks like a mangy coyote.

Here’s the location where this creature was discovered:

Map of Chupacabra sighting

Read the full news report, see the photo of the dead creature and draw your own conclusions. Come back here to Mysterious Earth and leave a comment with your theory.

Say it ain’t so.

If you are into the strange and weird stuff which (allegedly) goes on in our wonderful world (and beyond) - you know and undoubtedly love the Weekly World News…that staple of supermarket magazine racks with the most over the top headlines you could possible dream up.

Now comes the rather disturbing news that the Weekly World News is closing up shop.

Bob Greenberger, an editor with Weekly World News, reports on his blog that he and the rest of the staff were called into a meeting about noon on Friday where they were “told the Board of Directors has chosen to close Weekly World News. The reasons given make no sense. We’re stunned and shell-shocked. We’re to stay on through August 3, finishing the reprint issues and then we’re done. A glorious, funny, odd publication, born in 1979, will go out with a whimper and all I can think is that something’s going on that they’re not telling us because it just doesn’t make sense.”

Geez, what is this world coming to? Could this be some sort of funky conspiracy??

Here’s the editor’s blog.

From the town of Archer Florida comes a report about a pretty strange encounter on June 1, 2007.

we saw what looked like a dead dog on the side of the road, but it didn’t have any hair, just like the skin was hanging off and it was just black (the skin).

This creature reportedly chased the family vehicle and even passed it - the writer reports he was going over 30 mph at the time.

Obviously, this is a pretty peculiar story. Wonder what was actually seen - maybe a dog with severe case of the mange?

Here’s the location of this incident:

Here’s where the incident happened:

Here’s the original report.

The six-month-old female calf was discovered on the Yamal peninsula of Russia and is thought to have died 10,000 years ago.

This mammoth baby is almost perfectly preserved and is currently is Japan for further study and analysis.

Read all the details of this amazing discovery from the BBC.

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