October
25
/ 2023
The mystery behind one of the infamous ‘Fiji mermaids’ may soon be solved by radiology testing. This bizarre creature seems to be part fish, part monkey, and part reptile, and has baffled scientists for over a century. It had traversed the seas from Japan to Ohio, brought back by an American sailor in 1906, and donated to the Clark County Historical Society. With a grimacing face, strange teeth, oversized claws, fish-like lower half, and downy layer of grey hair, it's been giving museum visitors the creeps for decades! A Hodgepodge of Creatures: The Beast Within Joseph Cress, a radiologist at Northern Kentucky University, was quoted by The Daily Mail as saying: “It seems to be a hodgepodge of at least
