The 'mermaid' that fooled the world: Scientists reveal the true identity of a bizarre creature once hailed as a missing link between humans and fish

Daily Mail - Nov 5, 2026

According to Jack Daly, a lecturer in writing and rhetoric at the University of Colorado Boulder, the creature was never a genuine biological oddity at all.

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