Real Chupacabra found?!! Very cool

Awwwww, poor Slain-Livestock

 

That's pretty freaky.

 

Nifty

 

I had a chupacabra once. I have gastric problems, though, so now I just stick to the bean burrito.

 

Here's a followup story with information on what it "really" is. Can we say conspiracy?


Game and Fish: Bizarre creature an ocean skate
Last Update: 02/12/2005 2:44:41 PM
By: Todd Dukart

A bizarre creature found on Albuquerque?s West Mesa wasn?t the chupacabra, the Department of Game and Fish said, but it was something that isn?t often seen in New Mexico: an ocean skate.

Some people thought the creature was the chupacabra, a legendary creature also called the ?goat sucker.?

Construction worker Robert Wheeler said a friend of his found it four years ago on the West Mesa.

Game and Fish employee Marlene Bernal said she saw the creature in someone?s home.

?She had it a bedroom locked up and I said, ?What are you doing with it locked up?? ? Bernal said. ?And she said, ?I?ve never seen anything like it in my life.? ?

Bernal said she noticed the creature had gills, so she and her husband thought it could be a fish they didn?t know about.

The woman then brought the creature to Game and Fish to be identified.

?There were about six officers here and they took a good hour and a half looking at it and studying it,? said Bernal.

At first, the department identified the creature as a stingray, but later found it was an ocean skate.

Albuquerque Aquarium manager Holly Casman said stingrays and ocean skates are similar, but ocean skates have wider tails than stingrays.

Camain said the creature looks so different because a fisherman cut most of the meat off.

It?s not clear why the creature ended up on the West Mesa, but one theory says someone either caught it or bought it and dumped it on the mesa.


-Paul

 

Ocean Skate

 

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Chewbacca?!

 

I think an alien abducted a sting ray and probed it to death and threw it out his flying saucer window on his way to Roswell.

That is the only logical explanation I can think of.

 

I agree.

 

Its definitely not an ocean skate. They're just trying to explain it to calm everybody in that area down.

 

I knew it looked familar! I am quite familar with skates, just not when they are rotting in the ground in new mexico.

 

El Chupanibre?

 

Cuba Libre?

 

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I caught a chupacabra once. Tasted like chicken.

 

I hate when local news stations do little gimmicks like this. Mine had an "Alien Watch" week and they told us all to keep a look out for aliens. Seriously.