El Chupacabra in the Texas Borderlands
Throughout the 2000s and 2010s, dozens of alleged Chupacabra carcasses were reported across Texas, particularly in San Antonio, Cuero, Hood County, and Coleman County. Ranchers described finding livestock with puncture wounds and drained of blood, often attributing the attacks to a strange, hairless creature. In Cuero (2007), a hairless carcass named the 'Cuero Chupacabra' gained national attention before DNA tests revealed it was a coyote-wolf hybrid with severe mange. In Hood County (2010), animal control officers shot a creature later identified by Texas A&M as a coyote-dog hybrid. These si