In Andersen's fairy tale "The Daughter of the Sea", there must be an impression deeply engraved in everyone's mind: in the blue sea, a mermaid roams in the water, and her elegant posture and ethereal singing attract people from passing fishing boats to applaud ... Mermaid, a legendary name and image, often appears in dramas, novels, movies and other literary works, leaving us a lot to talk about. So, is there really a "mermaid" in this world?

199 1 On July 2nd, Singapore's Lianhe Daily published a report entitled "Mermaid Fossils Found on the Coast of Yugoslavia 65438+20,000 years ago", which claimed that European scientists found the world's first complete mermaid fossil on the Mediterranean coast of Yugoslavia, and confirmed that this animal, which used to only appear in fairy tales, really existed in the real world. This fossil is so well preserved that it can be clearly found at a glance that this animal has sharp teeth and strong jaws and can kill its prey quickly.

"This animal is female. It appeared on the nearby coast about 1.2 million years ago. " Dr. Bailey Ogani said. Dr Ogani is an archaeologist from California, USA. He has worked in the sea where mermaids appear for four years. Dr Ogani said: "It was buried alive in a landslide at the bottom of the water, and then it was protected by the surrounding limestone and gradually turned into a fossil. Fossils show that the mermaid is 160 cm high, like a human from the waist up, with a developed head, a big brain, claws in both hands and no eyes of other fish.

Although there is no doubt about the existence of fossils, one mystery after another follows: what is a mermaid? How can they live on the bottom of the sea? In this regard, Alistin Aitebotu, a British marine biologist, thinks: "Mermaids may be another variation of apes: they live in amniotic fluid before birth and can swim in the water as soon as they are born. Therefore, it is not very strange that an ape-like animal can survive in water. " Some scholars in the United States agree with this statement and think that this is a kind of "submarine man" who has not yet been caught. They speculate that human evolution is likely to be divided into two branches: underwater and land. Those who climb ashore are called "humans" and those who go down into the water are called "underwater people".