Chupacabra is a Coyote
Back in July, we reported about the finding of an alleged chupacabra near Cuero, Texas. A little uneducated speculation on our part pronounced this creature as simply a mangy coyote.
Turns out our speculation was correct. Well, maybe not the mangy part…but we were dead on about the coyote part.
The San Antonio Express-News reports that the DNA results are in. The DNA testing was financed by San Antonio TV station KENS.
The results? The chupacabra is a coyote!
Biologists at Texas State University announced Thursday that they’ve identified the hairless, doglike beast whose carcass was discovered near Cuero in late July.
The mystery creature gained fame as possibly the mythical “chupacabra.” But thanks to DNA testing, science has gone beyond legend and provided a definitive answer.
It’s a coyote.
“The DNA sequence is a virtually identical match to DNA from the coyote,” Mike Forstner, a Texas State University biologist, said in a news release Thursday night. “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.”