Uhmm, so they just shot a creature that was minding its own business foraging for food because it looks weird and they wanted to study it?

Riiiiight, it appears some lessons are yet to be learnt.

...this is an old photograph. I see a photoshopped image. I cannot understand why an animal foraging for food - had to be shot. For what reason?? Also don't understand why there are not more photographs of other angles. If the animal is deceased and no longer a threat and is unusual and there is a need to share the experience - how about a few photographs? How about a front shot and a back shot and some close ups???

I see a forgery. If it is a real image then why wasn't the animal left alone and filmed with a video camera??? Where are photographs of the others???? Perhaps they killed the parent???

Much Peace...

Definition: Psychopaths or those brainwashed by same, who kill for sport, and mount their trophy's on the walls of their abode to remind themselves daily of how "powerful" they are.

Sad, sadder, and saddest.

The creature looks like a Human/animal hybrid that was let loose into the wild. The greatest 'sin' of Atlantis was that they began to have genetically altered humans & animals.......like the whole Murdoch saga that hid the TRUEs headlining story of 150 Human/animal embryonic hybrids found in british lab at the said time......."the truth may scare you.....".

You people are not very smart this is a picture of a baby suffering from anencephaly, a condition that affects up to 1 in 10,000 babies. It is just a baby - maybe two years old at the max.

Usually these kids are aborted because they never survive very long. It's not an experiment or 'strange beast' or anything like that it's just a really unfortunate birth defect being held up by some people, presumably in an attempt to earn some money.

It's interesting that the Australian Daily Telegraph would run this 'story' - clearly their journalists do no research any more, and the same goes for the person here who copied/pasted their 'story'.

So yeah, in short what you are looking at is a picture of a dead baby that was sold to a newspaper and printed to earn more money.

Anencephaly makes the most sense.

Now tell me, is a child capable of "foraging" for food if he or she suffers from anencephaly? Gosh darnnit, mystery solved! Medical science will answer our questions! It is so simple, case closed.

I was waiting for athiest scum to creep around these neck of the woods and try to explain this with the most reasonable explanation, because us humans are quick to try to find answers in the utmost arrogant way we know how.

Quite frankly, we don't know enough, so EVERYONE is wrong.

Griffin, great rebuttle ... taking time to sound sophisticated and educated? What self righteous answer did I give? It's the most probable ... you are in an alternative website ... you want news for the zombie, go to a mainstream news site. This is lab experimentation no doubt, ask the Namibia people about the pig roaming and terrorizing villages.

From the CDC website:

Anencephaly is a serious birth defect in which a baby is born without parts of the brain and skull.

- Does not explain the long strand of hair on the humanoid's skull.

This often results in a baby being born without the front part of the brain (forebrain) and the thinking and coordinating part of the brain (cerebrum).

- This affects motor skills?

Unfortunately, almost all babies born with anencephaly will die shortly after birth.

- Seems unlikely that they can "forage" for food or ally with other babies suffering from this.

My point, anencephaly is inconsistant with the story. Whether the story is fake or not, I doubt this is a birth defect that has afflicted a child and was left to care for itself in the Jungle.

I think everyone bashing someone for shooting something in the woods is unfair, as they are not in their shoes. Maybe they sensed danger seeing this thing.

Atheists are not scum.

I thought it was only the "American Way" to: shoot first, disect next and ask questions third! Obviously, most humans who let the fear of the unknown rule their hideous reflexes are world wide. Good lord, people! Open your minds and your heads or you'll have to come back many times and do this life again and again until you figure it out!...oh, and by the way, good luck with that, I hope you are bullet-proof!

Such anger. Why not do some EE?

This might just be the weirdest comment thread that I've ever read in response to an article posted on sott.net!
That picture really bothers me. I'd sure like to know what that thing is. Maybe we'll never get a definitive answer but one thing is sure, that if it's real and not some latex/photoshop creation, then it has suffered. I would like to point something out to the poster who seems to dismiss the possibility of this being a human with anencephaly because she/he thinks that such a child would not forage for food as the article says that this creature was doing and also because he/she believes that the odds of a number of anencephalatic infants banding together are next to none. If this is a picture of a human child with anencephaly, then the whole premise of the story is false, i.e., a hoax. If it is, then that means that the witness statements regarding having found the creature "apparently foraging" and having tracked it back to a "lair or nest where they found three more creatures of similar size" is just part of the hoax. So whether or not an anencephalatic child could forage or not is irrelevant, do you understand?

Maybe it is actually a muppet?

They created 2,729 muppets.:[Link]
Maybe one escaped and reproduced itself?

Maybe the other three didn't actually escape the hunters and are going to be callously used for other scams?

Maybe....

Brings to mind the account of St Anthony's encounter and conversation with a "Faun" in the desert, from Jacques Vallee's 'Passport to Magonia'. The Romans supposedly hunted these creatures for sport.