Unidentified Creature: Panama Teens Discover Alien-Like Animal (VIDEO)

Four teenagers in Panama claim they encountered a creature that was photographed, dead on a rock.

It appears to have an animal-like head, but a strange body with skinny, human like arms. Some say it's an alien while others say it's an animal that's never been seen before.

The teens said, the creature was alive when they found it and it started coming after them, so they threw rocks and sticks at it, killing it.

Zoologists in Panama said they're not sure what it is, but it appears to be a dead fetus of some kind.

UPDATE: Darren Naish of ScienceBlogs.com says the creature is "very obviously" a sloth, though he has a difficult time explaining its hairless torso and head.

Comments

[ermamae]

04:28 PM on 09/23/2009

Please. An alien can make it's way all to Earth and is easily killed by sticks and stones?

This is a sloth. It makes me SICK that this animal was beaten to death by ignorant teenagers because it looked different and "came after them". Sloths are gentle, peaceful and loving creatures so I doubt it meant to cause any harm to them or ran after them in the first place. Poor little guy. It must be some sort of genetic mutation to cause it to be hairless, just like the Sphinx is a hairless breed of cats.

[ParallaxView]

04:00 PM on 09/24/2009

I don't believe it came after them. The little bastards probably killed it because it couldn't get away. They then said it came toward them so they killed it.

The animal could be deformed or different looking because of pollutants. Latin America is being polluted by oil companies and mine operations that use mercury.

[Militant Leftist]

12:44 PM on 09/23/2009

When did the National Enquirer and HP merge?

[jozzie]

05:06 PM on 09/23/2009

Yep.
Anyway, it's a sloth. The carcass of a sloth with its hair removed, and bloated from being in water. They're not showing the entire carcass, cuz if they did, it would be obvious what it is.

Really stup*d.

[zeeshan809]

09:05 AM on 09/23/2009

Seems like fraud. These kinds of made-up things have been revealed before.

http://next-world-war.blogspot.com

[purplerain]

11:49 PM on 09/22/2009

this is obviously a picture of Glenn Beck the morning after after a night out during his days as a drunk!

[spiritpony1]

12:33 PM on 09/23/2009

well, now here we must disagree; it is clearly Rush Limbaugh after another unsuccessful diet------

[Cinnamonape]

10:34 PM on 09/22/2009

Judging from the spindley, emaciated upper body and the distended, obese lower body I think we can reasonably infer it's the abandoned child of Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh.

[petef59]

10:23 PM on 09/22/2009

John Boehner-before the tanning booth.

[retrieverman1]

09:12 PM on 09/22/2009

It's a sloth.

[socialmistfit]

09:05 PM on 09/22/2009

See... if it had free government healthcare, it would be alive today.

Oh, wait... it was an illegal alien... tough luck.

[socialmistfit]

09:03 PM on 09/22/2009

Al Franken without his hair and glasses.

[machivellianX]

08:36 PM on 09/22/2009

This is still what it was two days ago....it's ann coulter sun bathing, mystery has been solved for awhile.

[ThirdSection]

10:04 PM on 09/22/2009

Then why didn't my monitor shatter while I was viewing the video?

[elemental775]

07:41 PM on 09/22/2009

I knew this would happen once Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh mated.

[unami]

06:56 PM on 09/22/2009

Tastes like chicken.

[Fein]

06:21 PM on 09/22/2009

It's either a horse fetus or Sarah Palin's baby picture.

[ThirdSection]

10:05 PM on 09/22/2009

The difference being...

[DD1Prime]

04:45 PM on 09/22/2009

If the kids had sense they would have captured it and taken it to a zoo instead of killing it.

[Hollis-Greene]

02:59 PM on 09/22/2009

A little garlic and butter and this mystery will be solved... does it taste like chicken???

[Cinnamonape]

10:41 PM on 09/22/2009

Looks like "the other white meat" to me!