A group of teenagers in Panama found this creature outside of a cave. When the creature moved towards them, they got scared and beat it to death with sticks.

Fearing for the safety as it moved towards them, the youths claim they attacked the beast with sticks before throwing its lifeless body into a pool of water.

The images have since bounced around various cryptozoology blogs, with several explanations suggested for what it might have been.

A hooked claw visible in one of the photos has been cited as evidence for the popular theory that the creature was a sloth that somehow lost its hair.

These kids have followed what seems to be the proper protocol. Find something that you can't identify, kill it, then take pictures.

via Telegraph