Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A mummified "mermaid" was caught in a fishing net in the 1700s and kept as a sacred object in Japan. Researchers discovered the ...

The head and torso of the mummy, which likely belonged to a small monkey. A centuries-old mummified "mermaid" that scientists recently revealed to be a gruesome doll of animal parts is even weirder ...

The mummified "mermaid," worshipped for the last 40 years, was found to have been a man-made creation from the late 1800s. A creature resembling a mummified mermaid, which has been worshipped by ...

In 1846, a Japanese policeman drew a legendary mermaid with scales like a coat of mail and flowing hair that ran all the way down to three mer-fins. He’d come across the creature while investigating a ...

After nearly 300 years, scientists have finally solve the mystery of a “mummified mermaid” found in the Pacific Ocean off the Japanese island of Shikoku between 1736 and 1741 and kept in a temple in ...

After eluding scientists for almost 300 years, the mystery of Japan’s mummified “mermaid” was solved — and it turns out it’s man-made. Researchers concluded that the creature, worshiped by locals and ...