scientist from the Kurashiki University of Science and the Arts have test an old " mermaid mummy " to find out what it really is .
TheEnjuin " mummy"was found in a box at the Enjuin Temple in Asaguchi , Okayama Prefecture , Japan . A banker’s bill leave with the unusual target claim that it was " a mermaid get in a net off the sea off of Tosa [ … ] in the Genbun earned run average [ 1736 - 1741 CE ] , " fit in toUnseen Japan .
Though it of trend is n’t amermaid , the great unwashed had marvel for years what it really was .
“ We have worshipped it , hoping that it would facilitate alleviate the coronavirus pandemic even if only slenderly , ” the drumhead non-Christian priest at the temple told Nipponese news program outletThe Asahi Shimbun , before the mermaid was studied . “ I trust the research project can leave ( scientific ) records for future generations . ”
The team conducted surface observations , X - rays , computed tomography ( CT ) scan , carbon 14 geological dating , and desoxyribonucleic acid analysis to determine what they were looking at .
limn their findings in afinal report , the team get hold that it was – at least in part – animal . Thelower halfwas a mesh of " dorsal , anal , and pelvic fins , the Little Phoebe ivory that support the fin , and the caudal skeleton " , while pufferfish peel was used to embrace the arms , shoulders , neck , and cheeks . The scale , the squad believes , day of the month to the former 1800s .
The tomentum , meanwhile , come from a mammal , while brute ceratin was used for the nails , the team find after study with an negatron microscope .
Before you get too frantic and scream " mermaid reassert " , the squad find that the upper body was made of paper and material , as well as cotton plant cushioning and a substance a bit like adhesive plaster .
Previous studies have looked at like animals , including one " mermaid " that turned out to be a fish that was confiscate to a telegram and wood trunk , withhuman hairfor a finishing touch .
The " mermaid " fish monkey was likelycreated by a Japanese fisherman as a joke . The fisher claimed the mermaid had made a vaticination that sterility would sweep up the island , and the only remedy was to have a picture of the mermaid , which he would happily give to the great unwashed – for a small fee , of course .
