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Mermaid problem

Not long ago, Dr. Vigred of the Russian Academy of Sciences revealed an amazing secret. 1962, a Soviet cargo ship sank inexplicably off the coast of Cuba. As the ship was carrying nuclear missiles, the Soviet Union sent a probe ship carrying scientists and military experts (including Dr. ViNograd) to search for the sunken ship and try to retrieve the nuclear missiles.

The probe ship came to the sunken sea area and scanned the seabed with the underwater camera. Suddenly, a strange monster broke into the camera: it looked like a fish or a child swimming underwater, with gills on its head and dense scales all over it. When it swam to the camera, it looked at the camera with dark and naughty eyes, which seemed curious. On the probe ship, all the scientists and military experts around the screen were shocked.

In order to catch this behemoth, they put an experimental cabin to catch underwater creatures on the seabed within the camera's field of vision. Soon, the monster appeared again. When it got into the tank to grab fish food, the crew on board quickly hoisted the tank to the ship. When the door of the sink was opened, I heard a cry like a seal, and then I saw a little green hand sticking out of the sink. When all the monsters are pulled out of the sink, people can see more clearly that this is a 0.6-meter-long mermaid baby, covered with scales, wearing a bone crown on his head and staring at the people around him in fear. Some people present said that this is an "underwater man", but more people think that this is the mermaid that people have been looking for.

Mermaid has been a hot topic since ancient times. As early as 2300 years ago, Babylonian historian Barosso recorded the mermaid in his book Ancient History.

/kloc-in the 0/7th century, a Hutchinson's Nautical Diary was published in London, England, in which it was written: Mermaids show their backs and breasts on the sea like women. Its body is about the size of ordinary people, its skin is very white, and its back is covered with long black hair. When it dives into the water, people also see that it resembles a dolphin's tail with many spots like mackerel.

There are also many records about mermaids in China's history books. In the Song Dynasty, the shape of a mermaid was described in detail in The Story of Ancestors: In Song Taizong, a man named Chadao went to North Korea (now North Korea) and saw a "woman" appearing on the sea. Her red dress was exposed, her bun was messy and her cheeks were slightly red. Living in water, if you can't feel love, it is a mermaid. "Song dynasty scholar Xu Xuan's" the record of gods "also has a similar record.

In order to explore the existence of mermaid, marine biologists, zoologists and anthropologists have done a lot of research work and put forward many hypotheses in recent decades.

Dr Lyle Wagner, an anthropologist at the University of West Virginia in Norway, believes that mermaids do exist. "Whether it is historical records or modern witnesses, mermaids have the same feature, that is, the head and upper body are like people, and the lower body has a tail like dolphins."

In addition, according to people in New Guinea, the most similarity between mermaids and humans is that they also have a lot of hair, and their skin is very tender and smooth. Women's breasts are like human women, holding the little mermaid to feed.

Dr. Listing Aite, a British marine biologist and a member of the British Bachelor's College, believes that "Mermaid may be another variation of apes. Babies 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 anthropoid animal can survive in water. " Some scholars in the United States agree with this statement and think that this is an unreported "undersea man".

Some biologists in China believe that the legendary mermaid may be a marine mammal named "Dugong" (commonly known as manatee). In the early 1970s, "Mermaid" was found many times in the South China Sea, and some places also exhibited photos in exhibitions, which was considered to be the first discovery in China and had great scientific value.

1975, with the help of fishermen, relevant scientific research units caught the rare "dugong". Because it still breathes with its lungs, it has to surface for air every ten minutes. It has rare long hair on its back, which is probably the reason why witnesses mistakenly think it is hair. Dugong gives birth to young and feeds them with milk. When breastfeeding, it hugs the baby with its forelimbs, and the mother's head and chest are exposed to water to avoid choking the baby when sucking. This is probably the scene where people see mermaids holding babies. But so far, many scientists believe that mermaids are just people's illusions.