The first thing that emerged was a paw. Then a head with large fangs appeared.
The creature that Philip Oliveira had frozen in a plastic garbage bag was curled into a ball. Its back legs were longer than its front legs, and the only fur it had was a smooth stripe of brown along its back and some on its tail.
“It’s too big for a coyote,” said Oliveira, a landscaper with a biology degree from Texas Christian University.
“It’s a chupacabra,” said Rocky Howe and Richard Cook, two friends who helped Oliveira find the animal May 31 on his Rockdale farm.
Read more at Austin American-Statesman.com.
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