In recent years, many directors have shot mermaid-themed movies and TV series. Mermaids have a human upper body, a fish tail. However, this did not affect their beauty, and fascinated many male protagonists. Is the mermaid real in history? Are they really as beautiful as the mermaids in the movies?
Since ancient times, there have been many legends about mermaids, and there are also records of human beings seeing mermaids in history books. Magellan, the navigator, once wrote in his diary that he saw a mermaid who looked like a woman, half-cut in the water, half-cut outside. Later, the Dutch navigator Hudson also said that he had encountered similar fishmen, and even the writer Turgenev said that he had found mermaids in a river. Although unlike the legendary mermaid, the existence of the mermaid seems to be real, and some people have filmed some strange films.
Someone in Poland once filmed a 2-minute picture of 5 mysterious people wrapped tightly from head to toe, they secretly lifted a human-like creature from the river and put it on a stretcher, which was surprising that this creature had a fish tail, much like the legendary mermaid. Although the video has been widely circulated, Poland has not given any explanation, so no one knows the authenticity and follow-up of the matter. In 19623, there was also an incident in which scientists caught mermaids alive, and this mermaid was a child who could speak human language, his head was similar to that of a human, and his lower body had fish scales and tails.
In 1975, China organized a round-up of "mermaids", which were attended by water-savvy people, as well as naval warriors, biologists and oceanographers, who took the most advanced instruments to the waters of the Beibu Gulf, and they pulled large nets to wait for the mermaids to appear. Later, they did catch some mermaids and bring them back to the institute, but the experts were very disappointed when they saw it. Because these mermaids are not only not beautiful, but also ugly, their internal organs are similar to those of people, but the structure of the stomach is similar to that of cattle. Experts identified the creature as a dugong, alias: manatee. It's not mermaids, except that they do look a bit like people from a distance.
After the news that the mermaid was a dugong was released, it was opposed by many experts and scholars, and many people put forward their own views, some people think that mermaids are actually a branch of prehistoric humans, and some people think that human ancestors should have lived in the sea at the beginning, but there is no conclusive evidence on whether mermaids really exist.