A 'mermaid boy' lies on a bed at a hospital in Changsha, Central China's Hunan Province, November 21, 2006. The body succumbed to multiple organ failure a little more than a month after he was born. His legs, just 21 centimeters long, were joined together from thigh to heel, with the feet splayed out so that they resembled a fish tail. [Qin Lou/Xiaoxiang Morning News]

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