Meet the Capacabra! Mummified creature with human-like hands probed by scientists
Raccoon was a good match, but without a dental comparison it's hard to be sure.
Ms Cartales said: 'A raccoon has the same general cranium shape, and the same with the snout shape.
'But the osteology text doesn't have any good images of dentition for the raccoon because their example was edentulous [lacking teeth].
'So I'm trying to find an example of a raccoon I can use for dentition [identification of an animal by its teeth].
'That's the next step.'
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