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Ogden also noted that "evolution tinkers," and in the tinkering of this insect lineage, evolution found that investing more time as a nymph was a really good strategy.

Through folktales, plays, children's story books, and Hollywood movies, mermaids have played on our imaginations even in this century, as a water spirit, a water nymph, a sea monster, or a malicious water god - with a human upper body and a