TET ZOO ON THE PANAMA CORPSE: "The animal's real identity is bloody obvious!"

I've always been fond of Darren Naish. We go back a long way, and although we have had our ups and downs along the years we have remained friends. Indeed, one of my favourite bits of the last Weird Weekend was sitting at my dining room table with him at about three in the morning drinking whisky and giggling at Max's vain attempts to stop a drunken Lizwiz falling to the floor, whilst Biggles gambolled around us barking joyously.

He too has had a look at the ridiculous story that came out of Panama, and which we sneered at yesterday (and the day before), and I am pleased to say that he agrees with me entirely:

Yet again the world is going nuts over a weird, ugly carcass that is being identified by some as an alien, as a genetic mutation 'of some sort' (duh?), as a deformed dolphin (seriously: what?), or as an unidentified 'monster' that perhaps represents a new species. I've lost track of how many emails I received yesterday about the thing. It's being dubbed the Cerro Azul Monster or Blue Stream Monster or Blue Hill Horror and was discovered at Cerro Azul, Panama. As was the case with the Montauk Monster, the animal's real identity is bloody obvious and this is no mystery.

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