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The picture of the 'chupacabra' she's holding looks a lot like one I saw on another website about hoaxs. And if it is the same picture it wasn't meant to be the chupacabra but some sort of genetic monster created by the government.

It looks sort of like a pig with the front end of a dog.

I'll have to see if I can find the site again.

If you could, that'd be very helpful. Seeing as this was posted by at least semi-credible news people at Yahoo!, I'd say some busting might be in order. stare

It may be just a hairless dog, but according to the news report, there are/were quite a few of them. I dunno...You'd think someone would have noticed earlier if a new breed of wild dog had been around for a while. I know it takes a while to do taxonomy and the like, but...I dunno. Three mutants all with the same fluke seem a bit unlikely (unless they were all in the same litter...). Something feels a bit "off," definitely.

Did you happen to catch the episode on Monsterquest last wednesday about that creature? It was extremely interesting, although the evidence ended up being pretty inconclusive sweatdrop Here's a link to part one if anyone's interested, it was actually a really good episode!

But apparently there has been more than one carcass found, so I highly doubt that any of this was a hoax. Since the show never really explained it, I definitely don't think it's the chupacabra, but I most certainly don't think it's a fake photo .