San Marcos, Texas (AP) - The results are in: The ugly, big-eared animal found this summer in southern Texas is not the mythical, bloodsucking chupacabra. It's just a plain old coyote.

"The DNA sequence is a virtually identical match to DNA from the coyote," biologist Mike Forstner said in a statement. "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."

Phylis Canion and some of her neighbors discovered the 40-pound bodies of three of the animals over four days in July outside her ranch in Cuero, southeast of San Antonio.

Chupacabra means "goat sucker" in Spanish, and it is said to have originated in Puerto Rico and Mexico.
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That was so completely obvious that I was quite ashamed for the lady who'd found it and felt the need to publicize it so much. She should have waited for the results before setting up her own Chupa business, complete with t-shirts it really did look like a canine, which is probably why she was milking it so quickly. I wonder if she'll take it down off her wall now?

damn what a waste of a person trying to flog off fake chupacabra merchandise, it sounds like all she cares about is money, what an idiot. she put it on her wall? that souds quite sick to me.

from here: "Chupacabra or not, the discovery has spawned a local and international craze. Canion has started selling T-shirts that read: "2007, The Summer of the Chupacabra, Cuero, Texas," accompanied by a caricature of the creature. The $5 shirts have gone all over the world, including Japan, Australia and Brunei"

Dunno if it's on her wall.. that's just an assumption from me I'm sure she'd have had it mounted considering she's so proud of it