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A Feejee Mermaid on display in Colorado may shock and intrigue – but it’s no longer considered a ‘missing link’ on the evolutionary tree

By Jack Daly, Lecturer in Writing and Rhetoric, University of Colorado Boulder

Mermaids have inhabited world folklore and mythology for centuries. Ancient Babylonians worshipped Oannes, a human-fish hybrid; sirens populated Greek mythology; and fairy tales such as “The Little Mermaid” have made this figure a pop culture icon.

During the 1800s, American…

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