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True mermaids don't actually exist, but they are generally depicted as having a fish tail rather than legs.

There is also a disease called sirenomelia, or mermaid syndrome in which a child is born with the legs fused together. Those with the disease have organs in their bodies either missing or deformed and as a result nearly all are either stillborn or die at a very young age. To date only three victims of the disease have lived past early childhood.

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