The strange corpses of "mermaids"

Dead bodies of mermaids

As one of the most beloved characters in the fairy tales of the famous Danish writer Andersen, the mermaid has entered the subconscious of many generations with her clear voice and holy soul. It seems like it's just a character in a fairy tale, but recent fossil discoveries of half-fish, half-human creatures raise a question: Are mermaids real?

While Greek legends praise mermaids as half-human, half-fish girls with unparalleled beauty and enchanting voices, reality shows the opposite: small creatures with strange shapes. snobby and never spoke up.

The first time the mermaid stepped out of the mythical legend to appear before the eyes of mortals was in 1403. The flood waters quickly receded, leaving her stranded on the shores of Eton, Netherlands, and then found by a group of fishermen. According to the book “Speculum Mundi ” published in 1635 by the British Minister of State John Swan himself about this event, the mermaid showed signs of quickly integrating into “earthly” life, liking to wear beautiful clothes, like to go for walks, listen to the ladies confide, but she never said a word.

The strange corpses of mermaids

In 1738, the London newspaper published a shocking photo: a small mermaid was discovered on the shore of the Hebrides, stoned to death because people mistakenly thought it was a monster. After that, the unfortunate mermaid was carefully buried, and if anyone expressed doubts, any old person or child in the village was ready to swear to prove that the story was 100% true.

The strange corpses of mermaids

In 2006, residents of the East Sea of ​​Russia discovered the corpse of a... mermaid! The myth of the blonde mermaid with a crystal clear voice was finally revealed.

The strange corpses of mermaids

The fishermen were really surprised when they witnessed a body with a dead fish-like tail drifting onto the beach. Scientists were immediately invited to examine it. Currently, Russia's ocean strange creatures organization still does not have an exact answer about this mermaid.

The strange corpses of mermaids

Recently, American zoologist Carles Banze published an essay " The Biological Basis of Mermaids" in Limnology & Oceanology, a very prestigious American scientific journal. The article reads: " Mermaids, mermaids, humanoid sea monsters... collectively called mermaids - in legends and in the accounts of witnesses or in the images drawn by ancient people, we see that mermaids in general have two eyes looking in the same direction like humans, not looking in opposite directions like fish.

The mermaid's hand has a thumb pointing horizontally like a human's, convenient for holding tools. Descriptions all show that mermaids have a rather large head compared to the general body, proving that the brain is quite developed. The lower body of mermaids is mostly shaped like a paddle with a fan at the tip similar to a whale's tail. The layer of scales on the body is actually a thick layer of keratinized skin that looks rough like fish scales..." .

The strange corpses of mermaids

Explaining that mermaids are no longer present in nature today, Banze was a bit extreme when he said that the reason was due to the development of the modern world polluting the ecological environment and due to fishing. The overindulgence in seafood has caused mermaids to become extinct.

As one of the most beloved characters in the fairy tales of the famous Danish writer Andersen, the mermaid has entered the subconscious of many generations with her clear voice and holy soul. It seems like it's just a character in a fairy tale, but recent fossil discoveries of half-fish, half-human creatures raise a question: Are mermaids real?