Chupracabra in Maryland?

[Jai Guru Deva]

I don't know, he doesn't seem to be such a bad creature. I bet he'd make a good pet. Doesn't shed much hair and he likes leftover chinese food. Maybe he could be made to do tricks and catch a frisbee! ;D

[Jai Guru Deva]

Hey about miss Yvonne, I'm not saying she was abducted by aliens, but you never know...

[B]

Pig-Size South American Rodent Spotted in Central California
and it wasn't Nancy Piglosi

picture at link below:

www.scientificamerican.com/gallery_directory.cfm?photo_id=D43E1901-9C0D-2E2B-5DF1EBCCCD4FAE14&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+C2C-InTheNews+%28Feed+-+Coast+to+Coast+-+In+the+News%29

"Nick Kamp, who works at a water treatment plant in Paso Robles,
Calif., was near a solid-waste pond when he spotted something emerging from
the murky water. He quickly snapped a few photos of what turned out to be
a capybara, the world's largest rodent, before it slipped back into the water
and swam away.

Capybaras resemble huge guinea pigs and can grow to be as large as sheep,
sometimes reaching more than 1.3 meters in length. They eat grass,
freshwater plants and—to aide digestion—their own feces. The semiaquatic
mammals are native to South American marshlands and swamps,
but this sighting in central California was not the first.

Three years ago, a capybara sighting at a nearby golf course was dismissed
as a probable beaver misidentification, but the hulking rodent later showed up
chasing a farm dog, whose owner tried unsuccessfully to shoot the wild animal.
California Department of Fish and Game official Todd Tognazzini told local TV news
reporters that he suspects people are seeing the same capybara in each incident,
and that it's most likely an escaped exotic pet.

This sighting was the first caught on film."

[Jai Guru Deva]

Rewinding evolution: Scientists alter chicken DNA to create embryo with 'alligator-like' snoutProcess could help detect birth defects in human children
By Daily Mail Reporter
DailyMail--Chicken story
Last updated at 3:24 PM on 19th August 2011

Scientists have undone the progress made by evolution by altering chicken DNA to create embryos with alligator-like snouts instead of beaks.

Experts changed the DNA of chicken embryos in the early stage of their development, enabling them to undo evolutionary progress and give the creatures snouts which are thought to have been lost in the cretaceous period millions of years ago.

The scientific revelation of 'rewinding' evolution could pave the way for scientists altering DNA in the other direction and use the same process to create species better able to adapt to Earth's climate.

Rewind evolution: The research changed the DNA of a chicken egg so the embryo developed an alligator-like snout
It has also been claimed that the breakthrough could eventually help eliminate birth defects in human children.

Arkhat Abzhanov, an evolutionary biologist at Harvard University, developed the chickens with snouts by cutting a square hole in the shell of a chicken egg and dropping in a small gelatinous protein bead before watching the embryo develop.

The changes allowed separate molecules on the side of the face free to grow into snouts within 14 days.

Although ethical rules prevent the eggs from bring hatched, Dr Abzhanov said he hopes to complete the work one day by turning chickens into Maniraptora.

Dr Abzhanov made the changes by analysing the 'signalling molecules' which control the anatomical changes in birds and other animals.

Adding protein beads to the egg which stifle the development of certain molecules also prevents the birds from growing certain features.

The revolutionary work by biologist Dr Arkhat Abzhanov could help prevent birth defects in human children

Maniraptora are small dinosaurs which it is thought spawned thousands of species of birds which exist today.

Chickens and other birds are thought to have descended from dinosaurs through a series of genetic changes.

By altering the DNA of chickens to resemble alligator genes before the beak developed, Dr Abzhanov was able to change the evolutionary path of chickens so that they grew snouts instead.

Dr Abzhanov told the New Scientist: 'It looks exactly like a snout looks in an alligator [at this stage].'

Jack Horner, a leading paleontologist based at the University of Montana, is conducting similar work in an attempt to make a 'chickenosaurus' with a tail and hands similar to those of a dinosaur.

Craig Albertson, a developmental biologist at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, said: 'Abzhanov's 'snouted' chicken provides a striking demonstration of just how easy it can be to provoke major evolutionary changes.'


Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2027558/Scientists-undo-evolution-create-chicken-maniraptora-snout.html#ixzz1VVfRJiyX

[Jai Guru Deva]

Guatemala pig 'alien' born with mutant head after UFOs seen in the sky
Metro--Guatamala Pig


Aliens have been blamed for the freakish appearance of a pig born in the remote village of Santa Cruz El Chol in Guatemala.

Residents of the South American village have decided that the pig's odd human-shaped head is the doing of visitors from outer space, after strange bright lights were spotted hovering in the sky on the night of its birth.

The pig's head looks similar to that of a human (CEN)

The poor pig, which is one of a litter of 11, has been described as looking like a cross between a human and something from the Alien movies.

Farmer Laureano Escobar Arias said: 'I was shocked - it was a really terrifying experience.

'It looked like some kind of alien creature.'

However, local health officials have suggested that there are more earthly reasons for the pig's appearance.

'We don't know for certain but it could have been caused by a genetic problem or by environmental pollution,' one commented.

A bit closer to home, pathologists are investigating a series of animal mutilations in Wales, with aliens once again the suspected culprits.

It is thought that the surgical-style injuries are too sophisticated for other animals to cause and, once again, bright lights were seen near the scene.

[Jai Guru Deva]

Ogopogo--Canada's version of the Loch Ness monster--spotted swimming in a lake!

[LOVELYRITA]

Mutant Pig Alien......hey.....sounds like the guy spotted at a local bar harassing the parking meters.....Go figure....

Looked like a cross between a human and an alien...sounds like some customers that was shopping at the store today.....

[Jai Guru Deva]

Yeti captured in Russia? Turns out it was a hoax (see comments at cryptomundo).

www.cryptomundo.com/bigfoot-report/female-yeti-captured-in-russia/


-Breaking News- December 28th, 2011 – Dzheyrahskom district – Russia

According to the Novosti news wire,

Direct Link in Russian : (http://news.mail.ru/inregions/caucasus/6/7721949/?frommail=1)

Ingushetia frontier guards, in the Caucasus region, have detained a snow woman two in tall, similar to the yeti.

“Several days ago in the Dzhejrahskom area a hunter had seen what he thought to be a bear seize a sheep and drag it into the woods. The hunter had gone after it, and fired some shots and the animal jumped up on two legs and disappeared into the forest. Today frontier guards spent time in the district doing a sweep and in a small hollow detected a strange animal, ” states Ingushetia Minister of Labor and Social Development Bagaudin Marshani.

The yeti is was taken to a settlement in the Surhahi of area Nazranovskogo Republic and placed in a zoo. The Republic Minister confirmed, that the caught animal – was two meters tall, does not speak, making incomprehensible sounds and eats vegetative and animal food.

[Jai Guru Deva]

Is the newly discovered dinosaur the Heterodontosaur Pegomastax really a Chupracabra?

Model reconstruction:


Scientists think Pegomastax was plant eater:


New Fanged Dwarf Dinosaur Found—"Would Be Nice Pet"

Odd, spiky dinosaur likely used self-sharpening teeth for self-defense.

Artificial skin and quills flesh out a cast of a skull from Pegomastax africanus ("thick jaw from Africa").

Christine Dell'Amore

National Geographic News

Updated 11:20 a.m., October 3, 2012 (adds video)


A new, tiny dinosaur with vampire-like fangs devoured ... plants?

So says a new study of Pegomastax africanus, a 2-foot-long (0.6-meter-long) heterodontosaur that lived about 200 million years ago. (Test your dinosaur IQ.)

P. africanus small, fanged dinosaur species that were "scampering around between the toes of other dinosaurs at the dawn of the dinosaur era," said study author Paul Sereno, a National Geographic Society explorer-in-residence. (National Geographic News is a division of the Society.)

Covered in porcupine-like quills and sporting a blunt, parrot-like beak, P. africanus would've looked like a "strange little bird," said Sereno, a paleontologist with the University of Chicago.

But its fangs, Sereno argues, were more like those of the piglike peccary (picture) or fanged deer, or water chevrotain (video)—modern-day, plant-eating mammals that use their teeth for self-defense and foraging.

The species, he added, would have lived along forested rivers in southern Africa around the time the supercontinent Pangaea had just begun to split into the northern and southern landmasses.


Reconstructing the Oddball

While preparing a comprehensive analysis of the little-known heterodontosaurs, Sereno identified P. africanus from fossils at Harvard University, which had been collected in South Africa in the 1960s.

To find out what the newfound dinosaur did with its sharp fangs, Sereno then reassembled P. africanus' jaw and teeth. He compared the reconstruction to jaws and teeth of both meat-eating dinosaurs and modern plant-eating mammals with fangs.

Sereno discovered that P. africanus' fangs were very similar to those of fanged deer and peccaries, which use their fangs in self-defense and competition for mates, he said.

Supporting this theory, microscopic analysis of P. africanus' fang enamel revealed wear and breakage consistent with sparring.

The researcher suggested too that the cheek teeth in P. africanus' upper and lower jaws worked like self-sharpening scissors for shearing plant parts, as detailed in the study, published online Wednesday in the journal ZooKeys.

Tiny Dinosaur Ahead of Its Time

Finding a new species of heterodontosaur is not "all that noteworthy," Hans-Dieter Sues, a vertebrate paleontologist at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., said by email.

"But [Sereno's] comprehensive review of the entire group of these odd little dinosaurs is a landmark contribution," said Sues, who wasn't involved in the study. (Read about bizarre dinosaurs in National Geographic magazine.)

In particular, Sues is impressed that Sereno "worked out how these dinosaurs chewed their food, which helps understand their peculiar, molar-like teeth."

What's more, the study revealed that P. africanus' sophisticated jaw structure was ahead of its time, Sereno noted. Such structures evolved again millions of years later in mammals.

If the housecat-size dinosaur lived today, he quipped, "it would be a nice pet—if you could train it not to nip you."

[LOVELYRITA]

Really strange crap going on, strange creatures.

In a local lake, mind you, this is a man made lake of about 45 years old and they claim a prehistoric creatures lives there. Really?

Probably mutants from Montauk that have been dumped into local waterways. Eeeks...watch before you dive...

[B]

this is hilarious! (not a debunking)

Bigfoot Is Real : DNA Evidence! Plus: Ancient Giants of North America
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DplHtoEz7kY


Of course, bigfoot howls and tree knocking are well-documented on YouTube.
In the video below, a human does a tree knock, and draws responses.

Return howls to a tree knock on 1-6-12.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yd5s9XZLf7o

[seasaltcaramel]

www.mass.gov/eopss/home-sec-emerg-resp/fusion-center/fusion-center-overview.html

"A Fusion Center is defined as a collaborative effort of two or more agencies who provide resources, expertise and /or information to the center with the goal of maximizing the ability to detect, prevent, apprehend and respond to criminal and terrorist activity."

-Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative

Homeland security intelligence/information fusion is the…process of managing the flow of information…to support the rapid identification of emerging terrorism-related threats…requiring intervention by government and private-sector authorities".

-Homeland Security Intelligence and Information Fusion, DHS

"Intelligence-led Policing is the collection and analysis of information to produce an intelligence end product designed to inform police decision making at both the tactical and strategic levels."

-National Criminal Intelligence Sharing Plan

---FUSION CENTER MISSION STATEMENT---

The Commonwealth Fusion Center collects and analyzes information from all available sources to produce and disseminate actionable intelligence to stakeholders for strategic and tactical decision-making in order to disrupt domestic and international terrorism.
GOALS

* Work in partnership with local, state, regional and federal public safety agencies
* Implement a secure, comprehensive mechanism for the timely exchange of information
* Provide accurate and timely intelligence products
* Provide direct analytical support for investigations involving precursor criminal activity
* Promote awareness of priority intelligence requirements and of indicators of threats to the Commonwealth

Central Repository of Information and Analysis

The Fusion Center works with federal, state, regional and local law enforcement, as well as the public and private sector as the state repository for homeland security information and incident reporting. It serves as a point of contact for local entities seeking to receive information from federal agencies. It collects and analyzes information to produce and disseminate actionable intelligence to support decision makers and operational personnel.
Specialized Training and Research

Intelligence analysts in the Fusion Center are assigned accounts which focus on terrorism and organized criminal activity. Each analyst develops contacts in their area of responsibility, and is responsible for awareness in their subject areas, focusing on threats to the Commonwealth.
Intelligence Products

The Fusion Center produces the following intelligence products as needed for Fusion Center stakeholders:

* Bulletins: reports for immediate distribution, such as officer safety alerts, high profile incident reports;
* Intelligence and Informational Briefings: oral or written products using all sources available to analysts on an incident or topic to inform stakeholders;
* Strategic Assessments: strategic overviews of criminal or terrorist threats to the public, public safety entities, or owners/operators of critical infrastructure assets.

Every effort is made to share relevant unclassified information and intelligence with public and private partners.

124 Acton Street, 2d Floor
Maynard, MA 01754

Phone: [phone] Fax: [phone]
Terrorism Tip Line: 1-888-USA-5458 (1-888-872-5458)"

Seasaltcaramel lives in Maynard. Seasaltcaramel thinks this is very eerie. Seasaltcaramel does stupid things all the time. Seasaltcaramel (the character i happen to be portraying) may just have to really hack the pentagon (and by really i mean not really).

I really do live in Maynard, though. There is only one threat fusion center in Massachusetts. I used to drive by it every day. Its in the the state police forensics building. A man that sells opiates lives about 100 yards away. I think he is the guy with the RV. In that area, anyway. The opiate guy has been at it for years, known as the greasiest. Seasaltcaramel thinks its ironic. Maybe that would explain why my former DA summer school teacher told me about the neighboring town Stow having a police force with m-16s at their disposal. And then there was the story my friends told me about that car on the backroad they found shot up. As they drove past an officer approached the scene, so they checked the papers for the next month and there was no mention of this. I know a coked up cop when i see one. Especially when they are spitting in my face when they've parked their car in the middle of the street to chastise me for not making their job of finding that robber easier. As if a robber would walk out in the middle of the night in the busiest part of town. He was just high and wanted to be confrontational. and he really SHOULD be ashamed of himself.

Of course, this may just have been made into a new scratch at the threat fusion center. Seasaltcaramel is surrounded by degenerates and it's really lame. He tries not to degenerate into a degenerate himself. So im going to go graffiti the building with chalk. Fuck 'em if they cant take a joke.

[B]

FREE PUSSY RIOT!