The moment FaThis IS a Chupacabra

Philip Oliveira, of Rockdale, claims to have found the mythical vampire creature known to suck the blood of small animals on May 31.

'It’s a chupacabra,' said Oliveira's friends Rocky Howe and Richard Cook who helped him find the mysterious beast a few months ago.

Oliveira claims his dogs killed the creature near a creek and he told The Austin American-Statesman that he recalls them 'barking like they had never barked before.'

Oliveira, who works as a landscaper and who has a biology degree from Texas Christian University, said that 'it's too big for a coyote.'

Biologists from Texas State University where he got his degree and the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department say the animal is nothing more than a coyote with an illness that caused all its hair to fall out.

'Most TPWD biologists have seen hundreds of similar photos, and there is no doubt about what it is,' mammologist Jonah Evans said.

Evans said that people report seeing a chupacabra, which translates to goat sucker, about twice a year.

'Every report so far has been either a coyote or raccoon with mange,' Evans said, adding that sightings are a 'new phenomenon.'

A woman first reported seeing the mythical creature in Puerto Rico in 1995 after seeing the horror film Species, reports The Austin American-Statesman.

'The likelihood of discovering an unknown, large, hairless carnivore living undetected amongst people that looks exactly like a common species with mange are so astronomically small that it is difficult to justify spending valuable staff time and resources investigating and conducting DNA testing,' Evans said.

Oliveira was so convinced the animal was the blood-sucking creature that he froze it in the cooler of his back porch until he could get a confirmation on what it was.

Howe sent photos to Sceptical Inquirer, a science magazine, and the Deputy Editor Ben Radford also said the animal was no chupacabra.

Still, Oliveira is convinced. 'When I got a good look at it, I was weirded out,' Oliveira said.

'I’ve spent a lot of time camping and fishing, and I’ve been outside my whole life and never even seen an animal that looked like that.'

Oliveira said he didn't think the animal was a coyote because it had scales on his skin.

He plans on getting the animal DNA tested to confirm that's it's not sick coyote but a mythical vampire monster that sucks the blood of small animals. 

(techradar.com)