Posted by
Gaius on Saturday, September 02, 2006 1:33:07 PM
Aha! We caught them trying to cover up the truth. Someone get
Jason Leopold on this right away! The
Portland Press Herald is reporting on so-called genetic testing done on one of the paws taken from the remains of the mutant hell hound found in
Turner, Maine. Here's what caught our eye right away. The first paragraphs state the creature was definitely just a dog, but the actual quotes from the researcher don't match that! This is a bigger and better conspiracy theory than even
Kevin Barrett has constructed! And we have even more credible wild speculation, too!
DNA tests have removed the veil of mystery from a creature that created a media and Internet sensation. It was just a dog - 100 percent dog, according to the Sun Journal.
The newspaper ordered up tests to end the speculation by readers who thought the creature may have been a Tasmanian devil, a dingo, a wolf or coyote. Some of the more outlandish theories involve mutations and extraterrestrials.
Dr. Yuri Melekovets, the laboratory director at HealthGene Corp. in Toronto, said he's certain that the creature was just a dog.
See, there they state quite firmly it is just a dog. But when they actually get to what the "expert" said it doesn't match up at all. (We think the person they interviewed was a plant, for no other reason than that makes the conspiracy theory even more wildly speculative).
Melekovets said the dog was likely a mix of breeds. He said there could be a trace of "rare breed" in the specimen. His guess" Perhaps a fairly new breed from Germany known as an Eurasier, which is a cross between a wolfspitz, chow and Samoyed.
His conclusion supports the findings of a University of Maine professor, Irv Kornfield, who also determined that the creature was a dog.
Kornfield said the unique DNA signature was run through the nation's gene bank database, where DNA sequences are logged, and it "most closely resembled the very common genetic signature for domestic dog."
Most closely resembled, indeed! We have a smoking gun, that's what we have. (Blue Crab Boulevard expects full and complete credit if this takes off as a new conspiracy theory, incidentally!)
(Cross Post from Blue Crab Boulevard where there are always more posts - not always this silly, either.)