It's tail is very detailed and realistic but I still think it's a hoax!

It's a sculpture done by an artist that does primarily mermaid, fairy and other oddity mummies. I've seen the website.

""The emails containing these images variously claim the specimen was found on a beach in South Africa, the Philippines, or Malaysia. These were lies made up after the fact. The first place the images turned up was on eBay, where the seller, a Tampa, Florida resident using the screen name "Seamystery," described the sale item as a "golden mermaid found dead on a lonely Florida beach." It was "a few inches shy of being 5 feet long" and lay on a "Fresh natural bed of seaweed." The circumstances of the discovery were described as follows: While...

I found a page where they show photos of the WHOLE carcass, but I'm not quite shure whether to yell photoshop or not....hope they let me post that link (...) the link is not displayed, just go google "venda mermaid",visit "urbanlegends.about.com" and judge by yourselves...

Check again... Any "expert" have an opinion? Or is anyone about to start yelling photoshop? Just wondering... ;P

that was what i was about to ask...

why is thre no photo of waist, torso, chest and head? just the tail tells me nothing