"It will disappoint all": mummies mermaids from a Japanese monastery struck scientists

Throughout centuries Japanese "mummies of mermaids" were considered as the proof that mythical beings nevertheless exist, but scientists could not explain these artifacts convincingly. Today experts managed to study mummies, transfers Federal state unitary enterprise RAMI "RIA Novosti". One of mummies was stored in the Buddhist temple of the Japanese city of Asakuchi in Okayama. It was in the wooden box which length exceeded 30 cm a little. This being is similar to the little monkey: dense wool, small sharp teeth and long hands with five fingers. Extremities were pressed to a skull. But the strangest – the lower part of a body – a fish tail...