Cryptozoology 2

The study of hidden animals.
Every year almost 20,000 new species of animals are discovered.
Quite a few of the animals we now know are real were once thought of as legendary; the mountain gorilla, the colossal squid, the saola, the okapi, to name but a few.
Even kangaroos were once thought to be legendary. When the earliest white settlers of Australia described to their European families that they had seen a creature with a head like a deer that stood upright like a man and hopped like a frog they were ridiculed and their accounts disregarded.

Just wanted to point that out.

Now, I came across these two today:

As cute as they are, what are they??
They were allegedly found washed up on shores, one on San Diego and the other in South Carolina.
The first one reminds me of the Montauk monster (see below) from some years ago, but it also looks kind of fake to me. Rubbery.

Anyway, here are the links:
http://news.discovery.com/animals/chupacabra-demonoid-marsupial-monster-sandiego-120202.html
http://news.discovery.com/animals/marine-monster-mystery-120328.html