Don’t Panic, But Scientists Just Found A Vampire Squirrel Which ‘Kills Animals’

Scientists have just found a terrifying, fanged ‘vampire’ squirrel which rips open deer and eats their organs.

Or at least, that’s what the locals believe.

The Bornean tufted ground squirrel (Rheithrosciurus macrotis) was caught on camera by researchers from Science magazine - but it’s still yet to be caught actually eating its prey.

Scientists are unsure whether the fluffy tailed creature is actually as vampiric as it’s painted - and are now hoping to ‘catch it in the act’.

Up until now the tufted squirrel has only been caught in blurry stills.

‘Dayak hunters sometimes find these disemboweled deer in the forest, none of the flesh eaten, which to them is a clear sign of a squirrel kill,’ the researchers wrote.

‘In villages close to the forest edge there were also accounts of the squirrel killing domestic chickens and eating the heart and liver only.’