A ‘mermaid’ was found on the beach
A strange mermaid spotted on a beach in Papua New Guinea has raised the curiosity of scientists. The mermaid reportedly washed up on a beach in Papua New Guinea. The pictures of this very mermaid-looking creature were shared by a Facebook account called New Irelanders Only.
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A strange, yellow and decomposed mermaid-like body was found on Simbri Island in Papua New Guinea’s Bismarck Sea on September 20. Experts are not sure about its true nature, but they believe it is a sea creature. According to Live Science, it’s known as a globster, an unidentified organic mass that washes up on shore. NIO representatives told Live Science that it is difficult to trace the origin of these mysterious creatures as most of their bodies are decomposed and most of the body parts are missing which have fallen into the sea.
NIO representatives said there was no information about the size and weight of the corpse as it was not properly measured by the local people before it was buried. And no one collected DNA samples, making proper identification nearly impossible.
Maybe a whale or a dolphin!
Helen Marsh, an environmental scientist at James Cook University in Australia, told Live Science that it looks like a marine mammal. Sasha Hooker, a marine mammal expert at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, narrowed it down further. “It looks like a very decomposed cetacean to me,” he told Live Science. Cetaceans, or whales, and dolphins are known to turn this color when they shed their skin, he said.