wow, I have never seen anything that looks like that before. Does anyone know what that is, if it is a known animal?

Mysterious Reptile Shot Near San Antonio

What is the mysterious reptile caught in an animal trap in 1997? Chupacabra--as some suggested?, An unknown dinosaur type long thought to be extinct? This photo comes from a video shown on KENS-5 in San Antonio. In November, 1996, a Mexican rancher near San Antonio, Texas, claimed to have captured the chupacabras with a coyote trap - and produced the photographs to prove it. (This story and photos used to be online, but have since become unavailable.)

The rancher had set the trap to capture whatever was killing his goats, chickens, and a donkey. What he caught was something he could not recognize. The creature had strange two-fingered hands, rigid dermal spines along its entire back. It was reportedly five feet long from nose to tail (my recollection) and was quite obviously a reptile.

Allegedly, the body of the strange creature was taken to a major Texas university for identification, although this cannot be verified.

http://s8int.com/dino2.html

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HOLY SH*T! What is that thing?

First, it was that mysterious dog-like creature that turned out to be a mangy coyote, and now this! San Antonio's bubbling with mystery these days. It must have something to do with the Alamo.

that looks like giddy goana, the goana that teaches us (down here in australia) how to be safe etc lol

im not sure that looks pretty weird... it looks like its made of stone...

Looks fake to me...No lizard has 2 fingered limbs, or dermal spines like that.

LOL@Giddy Goana.
I agree it looks fake- those spines look like they're made from cardboard.

looks like a Chameleon that someone's stuck fins on....

Chameleon

Chameleons actually have four toes, but two are fused together. Other than the head shape, it does look like a chameleon with fins.

My Panther Chameleon does bear a resemblance to it...

yes, fused... but still resembles the two toes in the picture...

The Lizard from seems to be modled after the Stegosarus so i think its .

Daammit, this pic has been around for a bit, I saw it at least 6 months ago, but reckon I could find the link?? Need to reoraginise bookmarks methinks.

I know I have seen this, I am sure it was a composite of skeletons, (good call Pax I am positive the main part was indeed Chameleon) but the steggy 'frill' was not - it was cut out of plastic or something. 100% fake, maddening when I cannot find the backup link.

Will keep looking...................

Have they done any atomic test in the area, you never know it could just be a freak of nature or genetically altered by radiation, a mutant in fact. Who knows, but I find it strange that most crypto photos are of such poor quality, to make them more mysterious or hide the fact that they are fake.

Stegosaurus was a dinosaur, and all dinosaurs have an erect posture - their legs are positioned directly under their body. The creature in the photograph has splayed reptillian legs and is therefore not a dinosaur. Also, it looks nothing like stegosaurus.



I agree that the picture looks very much fake. A regular fiji chuppa. The spines in particular appear to be made of plastic or cardboard.

-Pilgrim

Looks like a gecko with some cardboard fins...

lol, thats what i was thinking.

It does look fake.

The fins look fake. It looks like a chameleon got intimately carnal with a dimetrodon.

What the blazes is THAT?!

Chameleons are small lizards known for their ability to change the color of their skin. They live in trees and eat small insects.

However, I assume you were referring to dimetrodon. This was a synapsid, a creature which lived before the time of the dinosaurs. It had splayed lizard-like legs and a high sail on its back. It was the top predator of its environment at the time in which it lived.



In film, dimetrodon has traditionally been represented by gluing a fake fin onto the back of a baby aligator or iguana and photographically enlarging it (for a prime example, see Journey to the Center of the Earth).

Dimetrodon is often called a dinosaur, but it was not. As I said, it was a synapsid, a group which predates dinosaurs. In fact, dimetrodon is more closely related to mammals.

-Pilgrim

As synapsids are the direct ancestors of mammals. Pelycodonts

looks like a dirty hand puppet

It looks like a lizard that someone has added fin's too...You know when people make fake's like this, It only make's it harder to get the mainstream scientist to take crytozoology serious.....

Very.

Hey anyone think its the chupacabras?

wheres the shot wound

LoL

For real, what'd they use to bring it down, a sling-shot!?

In the last forum about this picture, someone said it looked exacly like some beanie-baby. I cant find the thread tho

great info

Oh wait a sec i was a Benie baby fanatic when i was young and I remember somthing resembling that

Doesn't Dimetrodon qualify as a protomammal?

The term protomammal is usually reserved for the therapsids, an order grouped under the synapsid class which gave rise to mammals. Dimetrodon was not a therapsid, however; it was a pelycosaur, a grouping that specifically excludes therapsids. Pelycosaurs were more primitive than therapsids and were generally dominant in the permian period (late paleozoic era; this was the earliest era with complex life forms). Therapsids arose in the early triassic period (early mesozoic; the age of dinosaurs), but were displaced by thecodonts as the dominant life form. Therapsids gave rise to mammals and thecodonts gave rise to dinosaurs. So, long story short, dimetrodon largely does not qualify as a protomammal; it is more of a proto-protomammal.

-Pilgrim

its fake!

lol...Not much going on here from what I can tell (I live in San Antonio). Although I was reading some of the other stories on the site that the original poster linked to and saw something really funny.

"Morgawr 1999: Video footage of a creature swimming in the sea off Gerran's Bay has been captured by local man John Holmes and has confounded experts."

hehehe....had to comment.

Actually 22 cal is good enough for most small creatures out here in TX if you are a good enough shot. I used to take out strays wondering on our property and kept the rifle by the door or on the front porch. You really can't see the entry or exit wound too well with that size caliber unless you're looking for it...I'd show you, but I've moved back to the city and can't go around shooting things like the good ol days...lol.

I don't know...it doesn't look like an animal at all! completely fake, a very bad made doll

dude that pic luks like summet i made in art in primary school.

It's fake and very sad. I mean really if think about somebody is trying to hoax people and this is what they were able to come up with.

I was thinking along those lines. Jsut didn't know all the terminology. Thanks.

well its supposed to be in a university now, can we contact them and ask if they had or have it and is it real

I know what that is: It is a Hodag. Bovinus spiritualis Very dangerous creature. Spikes along its back. They are mostly found in Wisonsin so I am doubtful about the San Antonio story. Most likely, it was somebody's pet.

Read about it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hodag

and here:
http://members.aol.com/joviko/hodag.html

Check out another pic here:
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tips/getAtt...ractionNo==1465

yeah, I been around the block...

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not only is it fake, its tacky.

Now that is a really badly made model in the photo.

Didn't you see the first line in Wikipedia? The Hodag is a FICTIONAL creature...

Ohmigod, Frogfish, you are so brilliant! Yes, we all did see it says fictional. And your point is? And your real name is Sherlock?

This:

San Antonio is not safe anymore...

looks like a stuffed animal.

I never saw this on the news and I live in san antonio. I love Cryptozoology I wish I would have seen this.

If only all hoaxes were this apparent.