Comments on: Mystery Creature’s Body Found in Panama

By: Danny G

Danny G — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 17:19:01 +0000

Im thinking an albino sea turtle that lost its shell somehow… or a sloth..

By: Jeremiah Enloe

Jeremiah Enloe — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:45:03 +0000

sloths have eyes in the front of their heads and this creature has them on the sides.

By: Jeremiah Enloe

Jeremiah Enloe — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:41:28 +0000

You guys are full of it. That is no sloth, its arms are too skinny to hold up such weight and look at the eyes….when was the last time you saw a sloth outside of the forest?….sloth….whatever!!

By: FanOfSloths

FanOfSloths — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:10:14 +0000

It’s a sloth. Look at the claws. The kids never said it was attacking them….simply moving toward them. If this poor guy turns out to be a sloth, which I’m certain it will, there is no way it can move fast enough to appear threatening.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 03:01:08 +0000

Agree…looks like a sloth that lost it’s fur. Look at the long legs and arms. The claws even look sloth like. The nostrils and eyes look like they are in the correct place. Kinda hard to tell about the teeth. Also, body may be bloated due to trauma or decomposistion. Look at this pic of a sloth. http://www.flickr.com/photos/acupunctureman/89276890/

By: StartTheWaterboy

StartTheWaterboy — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:47:38 +0000

Looks like a dead sloth.

By: Easy To Say

Easy To Say — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:59:38 +0000

Hey Frak01 give these kids a break… I probably would’ve done the same thing if I seen a thing like that trying to attack me… then again i probably would’ve given it a chance if it wasn’t “brandishing a weapon”

By: frak01

frak01 — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:27:47 +0000

whatever it is, it hardly looks dangerous… Did they say how it “came toward them”? did it run? crawl? slither? was it brandishing a weapon? kind of sh*tty to beat it to death if it wasn’t immediately threatening

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:21:20 +0000

All of the science blogs I’ve looked at regarding this seem to agree that it’s a sloth that has somehow lost its hair. The concensus seems to be that it was washed out to sea, then washed back in, hence the bloated midsection. The kids’ claims that they stoned it were either imagined (they stoned an already dead animal), or exaggerated (as kids that age will tend to do).

I’m holding off on an opinion on what it is. I have to say the ‘claw’ in the pictures I have seen are very sloth-like.

By: Brent

Brent — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:17:50 +0000

Best guess? Alien. Second best guess? Hybrid-mutant created from the daily sludge found around the Panama Canal.

Either way: the future!