By Lucy Caulkett-
A mermaid has been found washed up on a windswept Norfolk beach. Pictures of the usual mythical creature which is half fish and half human were taken by Paul Jones, who found the washed up mermaid in Great Yarmouth, The Uk Mirror reported.
The images are gruesome and show the decaying body of a human like a creature with a fish tail lying on the sand. Although the midsection is rotten, the tail and head have stayed relatively intact.
The image has been viewed 15,000 times on social media, with many viewers supporting his claim that it is indeed a mermaid.
Sightings of mermaids go as far back as the early Arabs and the Greek plink in 586 A.D. Historical Explorer, Christopher Columbus, also reported seeing three mermaids in the ocean off Haiti, in January 1493.
Last month, a Chinese mother aborted her baby, after a scan revealed she was expecting a child without any legs, but with a tail like growth.
The rare congenital disorder present in infants with partial or completely fused legs is called Sirenomelia. Although half of all reported cases of Sirenomelia results in stillbirth, there have been two survivors of medical operations aimed at correcting this so-called Mermaid Syndrome.
However, children born with this condition are not mermaids and the dead washed up mermaid discovered in Great Yarmouth is more like the real mermaid normally perceived as a myth.