Mystery of 300-year-old mummified ‘mermaid’ with creepy ‘human face’ finally solved after baffling scientists for years
Its jaw and teeth were taken from a fish and the "hair" on its head originally came from a mammal, the researchers found.
“There is a legend in many parts of Japan that a woman accidentally ate the flesh of a mermaid and lived for 800 years.“I heard that some people, believing in the legend, used to eat the scales of mermaid mummies.”
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