Mummified mermaid statue (credit: FLICKR) The 12-inch statue was made from paper, cloth, cotton and fish parts, The Sun reported. The mermaid did not have a spine, ribs or other bones.

Recently, a team of scientists examined the mummy and threw an array of technologies at it: CT scans (conducted at a veterinary hospital), X-rays, electron microscopy, fluorescent X-ray analysis, DNA ...