Ha! That little girl was great.

"Looks like a dog."

"And why do you say that?"

"Cause it is…"

But seriously… badger. People just aren’t used to seeing them without hair. Also it’s pretty gaunt lookin and it has been run over, so that doesn’t help, but the ears and claws give it away. I promise you if you strip the flesh from that think the skeleton will look just like my image here.

I can’t believe that in our modern society where all the information we could ever want is literally at our fingertips, people are still so quick to cry chupacabra. Even if in one of these cases, the carcass in question turns out to be some previously unclassified animal - that STILL doesn’t make it a blood-sucking-demon-bear-lizard. Odds are it’s at least a cousin of an existing species, and it will fall into as existing scientific classification. Empirical cycle, people. This kinda shit was cute when we were stupid (looks, something breaks the water yonder off the starbord bow. SEADRAGON!) but we should have moved passed this bull years ago. And friggan! Government testing animals… Christ, WHY?! What possible benefit could we reap from creating some sort of small hairless carnivore?! We can’t even afford to get off this rock anymore, and you think we’re messing with GENETICS for the F*** of it?! GAH!

-ahem- apologies for the nerd rage