Texas biologists have stated that the strange animals
located in Lufkin and Elmendorf, Texas earlier this year
were coyotes with mange. They did no DNA studies of the
animals, and made no effort, beyond looking at some
photographs, to determine why, if they are coyotes, the
disease they have has altered the configuration of their skulls.
In fact, the animals have a disease more profound than
mange, if they are coyotes, because their skeletons have
been altered, most particularly the lower jaws, which appear
to have incisors that are far larger than those in any
canid, or, in fact, any known mammal.
This could be because of bone loss in the jaws that is
making the teeth appear larger. The lower jaws are so short
that the animal would have trouble eating, suggesting that
it is a deformity caused by disease.
But what disease? No form of mange causes bone loss, and
that lack of bleeding from the animals when they were shot
suggests a profound systemic illness of some kind.
Unknowncountry.com's DNA study could not be completed
because the DNA from the animal in Elmendorf had
deteriorated due to exposure to light, heat or radiation. It
could only be confirmed that it was a canid.
Unless DNA can be obtained from another animal, the study
cannot be continued. In the meantime, animals in this same
condition have been found three hundred miles apart in
Texas, and one has been located in Maryland.
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