A strange hairless, fanged creature with a protruding stomach and hind legs longer than its fore legs was run over and killed near Cuero, TX last month. Phylis Canion, who discovered and took pictures of the creature, said this was the weirdest and ugliest creature she had ever seen-- and she should know, having been to Africa twice on safari.Ms. Canion is so convinced that it has scientific value that she kept half of it in her freezer and is inviting Texas A&M and the Texas Parks & Wildlife to come and take DNA samples to determine its genus. Though she had caught glimpses of it during the past few months, until now she had never seen it up close. It measures 40 inches in length with an estimated weight of 30 lbs.
What makes the situation even more unusual is that a similar creature was found run over by a car near Five Mile Creek later that same day, and another found dead three days after that, near the Guadalupe River.
Local game warden Michael Hoffmann and biologist Ryan Schoeneberg admit they have seen nothing like the Cuero creature but believe it to be either a mangy disfigured coyote or some form of hybrid dog that could have crossed with a coyote. In 2004, an animal found near San Antonio, dubbed the "Elmendorf Creature", turned out to be a coyote with demodectic or sarcoptic mange.
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