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   Mythical, bloodsucking 'chupacabra' found in Texas just a plain old   
   coyote   
   Published: Friday, November 2, 2007 | 8:29 AM ET   
   Canadian Press: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS   
      
      
   SAN MARCOS, Texas - 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.   
   Biologists at Texas State University announced Thursday night they had   
   identified the hairless doglike creature.   
   KENS-TV of San Antonio provided a tissue sample from the animal for   
   testing.   
   "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 neighbours discovered the 18-kilogram   
   bodies of three of the animals over four days in July outside her ranch   
   in Cuero, 145 kilometres southeast of San Antonio.   
   Canion said she saved the head of the one she found so she could get to   
   the bottom of its ancestry through DNA testing and then mount it for   
   posterity.   
   Chupacabra means "goat sucker" in Spanish, and it is said to have   
   originated in Puerto Rico and Mexico.   
   Additional skin samples have been taken to try to determine the cause of   
   the animal's hair loss, Forstner said.   
      
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