[Cadaverous Pallor]

Only a matter of time before we find them mermaids....or the lost city of Atlantis.

I bet it has to do with the current connectivity of the world. It's like that tribe that was digging up dinosaur bones and grinding them up for magical uses - they did that for generations before they finally got hooked up and realized what they had.

I bet these aren't the first of their kinds, just the first that the western world caught wind of.