* allegedly coining the term chupacabras to name the mythical creature responsible for various attacks on animals in Puerto Rico, Mexico and the United States

Puerto Rican comedian and entrepreneur Silverio Pérez is credited with coining the term chupacabras soon after the first incidents were reported in the press.

In late October 2010, University of Michigan biologist Barry O ' Connor concluded that all of the ' chupacabras ' reports in the United States were simply coyotes infected with the parasite Sarcoptes scabiei, the symptoms of which would explain most of the features of the chupacabras: they would be left with little fur, thickened skin, and rank odour.

In April 2006, MosNews reported that the chupacabras was spotted in Russia for the first time.

Finally, eyewitnesses were able to describe the chupacabras.

The popularity of the chupacabras has resulted in it being featured in several types of media.

The chupacabras has been featured in films such as Scooby-Doo and the Monster of Mexico and in independent film productions including: Chupacabra: Dark Seas, starring John Rhys-Davies, Guns of El Chupacabra, starring Scott Shaw, El Chupacabras and Vuelve el Chupacabras.

An entire episode of The X-Files series, El Mundo Gira, is devoted to the chupacabras.

The TV series Ugly Americans featured chupacabras living in New York.

Following the incident in Cuero, Texas the popularity of the chupacabras myth was receiving global attention.

" It is known as both chupacabras and chupacabra throughout the Americas, with the former being the original word, and the latter a regularization of it.

Rumors have persisted that he appears somewhere on the legendary album, and while Richards concedes that it is very likely he is among the chorus of singers on " Sweet Virginia ", to this day nothing has been substantiated.

A Hengest appears in the surviving accounts of the legendary Battle of Finnburg: the Finnesburg Fragment and a lay embedded in the epic Beowulf.

Some scholars have suggested it is relevant to this debate that the legendary King Arthur's name only appears as Arthur, or Arturus, in early Latin Arthurian texts, never as Artōrius ( though it should be noted that Classical Latin Artōrius became Arturius in some Vulgar Latin dialects ).

A less obviously legendary account of Arthur appears in the Legenda Sancti Goeznovii, which is often claimed to date from the early 11th century although the earliest manuscript of this text dates from the 15th century.

The standard depiction of the character first appears in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, written c. 1136, and is based on an amalgamation of previous historical and legendary figures.

In some of the old sources, such as the Jómsvíkinga saga, Sweyn appears as an illegitimate son of Harald Bluetooth, raised by the legendary Jomsviking and jarl of Jomsborg, Palnatoke.

Tiresias appears as the name of a recurring character in several stories and Greek tragedies concerning the legendary history of Thebes.

Welsh bardic tradition appears to end in the same 13th century, the Welsh campaigns of Edward I supposedly culminating in the legendary suicide of The Last Bard ( c. 1283 ), as commemorated in the poem The Bards of Wales by the Hungarian poet János Arany in 1857 as a way of encoded resistance to the suppressive politics of his own time.

Hu Gadarn () is a supposed Welsh legendary figure who appears in several of a series of Welsh Triads produced by the Welsh antiquarian and literary forger Iolo Morganwg.

During the sixth and seventh centuries a purely legendary narrative of their martyrdom appeared which appears to be based upon other legends, especially on the legend of Poitus, and ornamented with accounts of fantastic miracles.

Owing to his legendary status, his name frequently appears in Chinese novels and Wuxia films of swordsmen as a spiritual teacher and master of martial arts.

Nothing more is known of Ælla, but he appears to be mentioned in the legendary saga Gautreks saga, where he is visited by the peasant hero, Ref.

The name is taken from the legendary creature that appears in the mythology of several indigenous North American cultures.

Angélique appears almost as a legendary figure, and parts of her story have taken on a life of their own in countries such as Haiti, where, irrespective of documentary evidence, the tale that she was burnt alive with her hand cut off is still told, as if the original sentence had not been reduced.

In the Shiji, the sentence " 内平外成 " ( Kanbun: 内平かに外成る Uchi tairaka ni soto naru ) appears in a section honoring the wise rule of the legendary Chinese Emperor Shun.

Long appears as a character in Oliver Stone's film JFK, portrayed in a cameo appearance by legendary actor Walter Matthau.

The legendary player Balmung appears and defeats it but it revives as a Data Bug.

In the Recognitions ( R 4. 29 ), one version of the Clementines, Nimrod is equated with the legendary Assyrian king Ninus, who first appears in the Greek historian Ctesias as the founder of Nineveh.

Hrólfr Kraki, Hroðulf, Rolfo, Roluo, Rolf Krage ( early 6th century ) was a legendary Danish king who appears in both Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian tradition.

There are obscure aspects to Tristan ; his Cornish or Breton name appears to mean " sadness ", as it does in many Romance languages, including French, while the legendary Pictish Chronicle Drest or Drust frequently appears as the name of several ancient Pictish kings in modern Scotland far to the northwest ; Drustanus is merely Drust rendered into Latin.

Ogier the Dane ( French: Ogier le Danois or archaically Ogier de Danemarche, Danish: Holger Danske ) is a legendary character who first appears in an Old French chanson de geste, in the cycle of poems Geste de Doon de Mayence.

The legendary Martial appears with many miracles, casting out fiends and raising the dead and encouraging mass baptisms, in the 13th century compendium of lore, the Golden Legend.

This account appears in E. J. Fleming's book The Fixers: Eddie Mannix, Howard Strickling, and the MGM Publicity Machine ( 2004 ) about legendary MGM " fixers " Mannix and Strickling.

In the latter enhanced version there appears a separation of material or large cut on the right arm of the creature and a mysterious object or deformity above the breasts.

Also it has been speculated that the Bigfoot appears to be nearly seven feet tall when Heironimus was only six foot two and Heironimus was also not as bulky as the creature but a suit would prohibit a reasonable comparison.

* Sky Moo-A Large blue cow type creature that appears in ' The Seed ' episode, that helps the Clangers by eating all the vegetation that is over running their planet.

This feature does not appear in stories about werewolves before the 19th century ( the claim that the Beast of Gévaudan, an 18th-century wolf or wolf-like creature, was shot by a silver bullet appears to have been introduced by novelists retelling the story from 1935 onwards and not in earlier versions ).

However, a creature named Gith, who appears only as a disembodied cybernetic head, runs a hyper-corporation called Gith Industries whose " employees " are little more than slaves.

The Garuda ( Sanskrit: गर ु ड, " eagle ") is a large mythical bird or bird-like creature that appears in both Hindu and Buddhist mythology.

Splashed with burning chemicals in the massive fire, Holland runs from the lab and falls into the muck-filled swamp, after which a creature resembling a humanoid plant appears some time later.

* Mirkmonster ( performed by Bob Stutt )-An enormous creature that appears only as an arm and longer than a handful of Fraggles.

* Maski-mon-gwe-zo-os-a toad creature, seduces men and children and kills them, appears either as a partridge or a woman dressed in moss, with a belt made of arborvitae bark

In the books, a hinkypunk is a one-legged, frail-looking creature that appears to be made of smoke.

The Baron ( who again appears elderly after being " expelled from a state of bliss ", in his words ) struggles with the conflicting goals of heroism and a peaceful death, before deciding to escape by blowing " a modicum of snuff " out into the sea creature's cavernous interior, which causes the sea creature to " sneeze " the heroes out through its whale-like blowhole.

Suddenly, a strange fairy ( which turns out to be Mokona, the creature from the original series ) appears in front of them.

He appears as a dragon-like creature with scales and bats ' wings.

" The English continually refer to her as a witch and a whore, the French as a saint and a saviour, and the play itself seems to waver between these two poles: " Joan first appears in a state of beatitude, patient, serene, the " Divinest creature " of Charles ' adoration, the object of the Virgin Mary's miraculous intercession, chosen by her to rescue France, and so made beautiful, courageous and wise [...] on the other hand, and virtually at the same time, she's clearly an early combination of the demonic, the Machiavellian, and the Marlovian.

Though she appears to be a young woman, Jadzia lives in symbiosis with a wise and long-lived creature, known as a symbiont, named Dax.

* a fictional creature created by Lewis Carroll that appears in his poem Jabberwocky.

* The Jersey Devil appears in the 2009 Nintendo DS game Scribblenauts as an enemy that will attack the nearest creature in sight.

The monster in Hrólf Krakis saga, however, is quite unlike the Grendel of Beowulf ; but it does have characteristics of a more typical dragon, a creature which appears later in Beowulf.

In the original television episode, the gremlin appears as an almost ape-like creature which inspects the aircraft's wing with the curiosity of an animal and then proceeds to damage the wing.

The creature commonly appears in the bestiaries of fantasy role-playing games, where it is portrayed as a larger, stronger, smarter and more menacing cousin of the goblin, but not as high up on the goblinoid hierarchy as bugbears.

A lake monster known as the Slothunog is suggestive of Nessie and appears in High Rhulain, and a similar creature in Salamandastron known as the Deepcoiler also appears.

The figure on Altar 4 is sitting inside what appears to be a cave or the mouth of a fantastic creature, holding a rope which wraps around the base of the altar to his right and left.