Every discovery by archaeologists that shocks the academic community can cause a huge sensation around the world. But it is precisely because of this that under the attraction of huge interests, some fake experts and even real archaeologists have forged archaeological discoveries that are difficult to distinguish between true and false through superb technical means, thus deceiving the world for tens or even hundreds of years. What kind of marine animal is a mermaid? It is a dugong, an ancient marine animal with sparse hair and a pair of breasts that regularly surface to breathe and is often mistaken for a mermaid.
What kind of marine animal is the mermaid: dugong
In people's minds, many mermaids in literary works are human fish tails, with beautiful faces, natural voices, and mysterious creatures living on the seabed. Is there really a mermaid in the world? In fact, the prototype of the mermaid is the dugong, one of the oldest marine animals in the world, and it is also an endangered species, which is currently a national first-class protected animal.
Dugongs like to live where aquatic grass is exuberant, plus it is breathed with lungs, every ten minutes to surface for ventilation, from under the aquatic grass to the surface, there will be some aquatic weeds on the head, looking like human hair. Dugong's whole body is also covered with short, fine hair, making it easier to mistake it for hair. Dugongs are also mammals and give birth to young children.
The child is breastfed, and when breastfeeding, the young child is held with the forelimbs, and the head and chest will be exposed to the water to avoid the young son from choking. This is probably the picture of a mermaid holding a little mermaid and feeding her in some books. Therefore, some biologists on the mainland believe that the legendary mermaid is likely to be a sea creature such as a dugong.
The black-scaled fish is a mysterious creature of the fishtail human body in ancient Chinese mythology, similar to the mermaid in Western mythology. Legend has it that their oil ignition point is extremely low, a drop can burn for a long time, qin shi huang mausoleum is made of black scaled fish oil changming lamp, and eating the flesh of black scaled fish people can live forever...
However, since ancient times, there have been many records of mermaids, both at home and abroad, and even archaeologists have found the remains of the mermaid mummy 3,000 years ago, that is, the human fish tail, which looks like a beautiful dark-skinned princess. With more and more information about the strange seabed creature of the "mermaid", after physical testimony, there is now a scientific study dedicated to mermaids.
Speaking of mermaids, no one is unfamiliar, everyone's imagination is a beautiful and gentle mermaid image in fairy tales, the upper body is a person, what to have, the lower body is a fish, the kind that can swim. But according to excavation reports in recent years, archaeologists have found that the real face of the mermaid is not only not beautiful but even very scary...