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, The Conversation · November 4, 2026

All hoax – no science – the Feejee Mermaid startled American audiences that imagined it a real sea creature.

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