A strange canid recently shot and killed in Montana looks so weird, that authorities are going to be conducting DNA testing to determine what kind of animal it actually is.

A rancher near the town of Denton killed the animal on May 16 when it ventured within several hundred yards of his livestock; he then reported the kill to Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks (FWP) in accordance with local law.

Because the animal was close to a residence and livestock, the rancher was within his legal rights to shoot it.

Wolves are native to the area, so that’s what the animal was reported as – but when the department’s wolf experts looked at photographs of the animal, they noticed several problems with the identification.

“Something was not right about the animal,” a spokesman for the department said in a video released on Twitter. “It does not look like a wild wolf.”

The canid was a young female, but her paws were too small for a wolf, her teeth too short, her ears too big, and her front claws too long.

This means she is probably some sort of wolf hybrid – perhaps with a coyote, which are also found in Montana, or, as Montana FWP suspects, with a dog.

That hasn’t stopped the internet, as the internet does, from wildly speculating, with cryptid communities excited about the possibility of a dogman (or dogwoman, as it were) or werewolf, or even it being a member of the extinct dire wolf species.

But the case for any of those options is weak at best, especially since none of them have been seen and reported by a reliable source, while dog-wolf hybrids are totally a thing.