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Scientists have rushed to say that the monster cannot be any of these creatures. It seems that its feet are too wide apart to be a raccoon, its eye ridge is not that of a dog and turtles don't have teeth. What is more, its back feet look like sheep feet, while its front ones have strangely elongated paws.

Scientists believe that either the picture was created using Photoshop or that somebody used latex or other materials that can resemble skin to create this strange animal. However, looking back to those days when a dead platypus was shown to scientists for the first time, some of them though that the animal was the creation of a taxidermist.

Originally posted by Anonymous ATSI respect the reasonings and the effort put forth by several on here, and grant the computer mock ups lean toward the racoon theory...but any backwoods old timer on earth can tell in about five seconds this is not a racoon.

Originally posted by bugs_n_recovery
I wish some biologists would settle this!!

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is now conventionally believed to be a relative of Rocky, the raccoon. Larry Penny, director of Natural Resources for the Town of East Hampton, believes the creature is a raccoon in the beginning stages of a watery decay.