Real Mermaids
Real mermaids – are they fact or fiction?
The question has puzzled sailors, scientists, and writers and poets ever since the earliest days of sea travel. The truth is, in this day of high tech equipment and underwater cameras and submarines, we are no closer to knowing exactly if mermaids exist or not.
One of the pieces in this puzzle comes from realizing that many sea creatures can, at times, grow to have human like characteristics. Sea Cows can mutate to have very human looking features because, as mammals, they once lived on land as monkeys, and ony later returned to the sea. Humans, too, can grow in the womb with fused feet in a process known as Sirenomelia. Our earliest ancestors were sea creatures, and it is for this reason that babies can be born that look identical to the mermaids depicted by sailors and artists from the past.
If this can occur in people in cities, how much more could it happen in isolated ocean communities, in islands and peninsulas away from the towns we have today? And if a group of these babies were born and lived in the seas, what if they formed families and reproduced, continuing and perhaps developing this condition. It would certainly help them survive when the main source of protein was fish and looking for food underwater.
People are always fascinated by the stories, legends and mythologies of mermaids speculations about real mermaids continue to exist. People for ages have been looking for real live mermaids that seeing sea animals like the Manatee, or sea cow, are often mistaken to be real mermaid sightings. Other creatures that are featured in the museums from the 1800’s are fakes, build to cash in for a curiosity with these magical creatures from the sea.
Such fakers would usually find a preserved body of a monkey, and a large fish such as a Groper or other reef fish. Using the taxidermist’s art, these two creatures could be combined to form one seamless ‘creature’. A clue to spotting these types of fakes is if the ‘mermaids’ are said to be only baby or pigmy mermaids. Full sized mermaids are too difficult to make, as monkeys only grow so large.
In 2005, a story of a “real mermaid” which was allegedly found in Chennai following the Indian Ocean Tsunami in December 2004 circulated in the internet.The story was backed up with pictures of the Legendary creature with mermaids tail which inevitably made people ask “do mermaids really exist?”.
According to Source, the body of the “real mermaid” is at the Egmore museum guarded under tight security. Does this prove that mermaids are real? The source claims that the mermaid called Kadal Kanni is a hoax like P. T. Barnum’s Fiji mermaid. Others are not so sure. All we can do is compile the evidence and let our science – and our imagination – take hold…
at first i thougt mermaids are baeutiful but seriously they are to ugly and have you seen that mermaid which came in haiti and there are many new born babys which are like mermaids
i think that picture of the dead mermaid was interesting!!!!!!But i think people are goin way to far!!!!!!!! I think that mermaids are real.Yes they are a Greek mythologybut who knows they might be real and they might not be!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this is rediulous i mean really mermaids?/!
i really want to find out if a mermaid is real. i am only a 9 year old child and my friend she is a mermaid when she touches water. she got that from H2O just add water on TV. i just really really want to find out if a mermaid is reall.
I do really believe that mermaids are real but when u think of it they actually seem fake. I might still get to believe in them somehow somewhere. but ill keep searching.
brittany.
Ooooo…mermaids…its so unique for me..
hey all u people who dont believe in mermaids piss off ok because they are out there somewhere. dont give up and keep lookin cause you aint know til ya see it so until u dont no anything shut the hell up cause even if u dont believe in them other people do.
so do as i said before piss off and shut the hell up.
p.s.coment my coment.
I am a believer in many things. Elves, Faeries, Pixies, Witches, Nymphs, Dryads, etc. Mermaids are one of the things I believe in. Some things you have to see for yourself before you will believe it, and I would say that Mermaids are one of them. I’ve seen more in my lifetime than a lot of other people. Many things that are thought to be myth are very real.
they said mermaid died of because the water of the sea became salty
They are NOT real people just make them look real so people will believe in mermaids.Trust me they are not real.Iv’e seen a picture of a mermaid and it is totaly fake.PLEASE DON’T BELIEVE IN THEM BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT REAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OK SOMETIMES I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT THEY ARE TRU BUT SOMETIMES I DO. OK WELL IF THEY ARE TRUE THEY ARE BUT HOW COME DO THEY NOT SHOW UP? I WISH TO SEE ONE AND NOT DIE AFTER WATS
Ah….mermaids. I really do love them…The problem is that the media always tries to say it`s a fairy tale and not real- how do they know? They still don`t know ALL of the ocean`s creatures- who`s to say mermaids aren`t one of those creatures? …Besides, I`ve seen so many mermaid spells that could turn you into one- it`s scary. o.O I believe in them alright!…Maybe I should become one…
i lve mermaids
I believe in mermaids but this is stupied.
The mermaid pictures aren’t real! ^^ (I don’t speak english very xell.°w°)
do you guys know what you are saying? sure it’d be cool as hell if mermaids existed but face the facts whats the chances that something like that really ever happens?
yo guys is this a real mermaid or what?
i don’t belive it does some body do
lexi are still belive init
yo guys iam feelling creepy here
i think it is real coze the pitcher just look at them they dont look like any UFO or something like that its just real i believe in this coze i am a muslim and any thing in the quran is real for me its real i no it is coze i saw one by my self
mermaids so do not exist it is just a funny mith
,oh guys!! i believe that the mermaid is real and they’re exist. Just like us, they’re live in the sea, and we can live on land. So we can also respect them as they do respect us and to our sea.. Right??
If mermaids are real and one gets on here and is typeing on its merputar then it should give me a call or shoot me a mermail and we can make some merbabys. I have a merinis I was lucky enough to be blessed with and its huge. Me and my mergirl would go dance the mercarana it would be mertastic. and you all are seriously mertarded!
I WILL LIKE IT IF SMOBODY SHOWED TO BECOME A MERMIAD WHEN U TOUCH THE WATER.BUT A AV GOT POWER’S THOR.
i am telling the truth.mermaids are not real!i sware!people are just trying to make them look real so they can beleive in them.it is just fiction.trust me please.yea everybody saying that they are not real keep it going tell the whole world because you are right!i sware!do not believe in them!please please please please!thankyou!
hi guys, i know some of you don’t believe in mermaids and dragons and stuff, but i believe and if you tell little kids they ain’t real then you’ll break their lil’ hearts. I believe in them and ,like you said, you can’t prove they’re real and because of that you can’t prove they ain’t real. and btw Sophia your poem is luvly and basia – NO NEED FOR SARCASM!
they do excist you ppl dont know 1 of you might be mermaids with a water proof computer. He ck i might b 1 u neva know hehehehehhehehehe
To everyone out there who doesn’t know for sure if mermaids and mermen are real…you can either believe me or not,but i live in naples florida and am an avid boater…fisher and swimmer, and i have seen …with my own eyes a “real” mermaid more than once.it is both scary and exilerating at the same time.the first time was off a small island that everyone calls Panther Island as soon as you enter the gulf.i only wish they would show themselves more often so that others will see and believe.i truly thought it was all full of shi- but it is not! anyone brave enough to respond please e- mail me…may the sea angels of the ocean be with you all..peace out!
hai!guy’ do u know mermaid is can still alife!~i can belive mermaid is still alife.but i belive because i see with my own eyes~!i see the mermaid is still in this world.that all what i see with my own eyes~ i hope the mermaid can life in harmony,muahahahah,….~that all guy’s! see u can belive it or not u can chat this and u can see with u own eyes~”THE REAL MERMAID VIDEO”u can try this and show the real mermaid and u can see~!that!HAHAHAHAH:SEE u NEXT TIME guy’s!
I believe in mermaids and if you don’t that just is so lame. I mean how could you not belive in mermaids? By the way I want to know wether or not they are real beacause I am only ten. And I believe in all sorts of fairytale stuff.
Well, this story really fascinate me a lot, I do think I should contribute. I for one do believe that mermaid do exist—why?. Just simply because I grew up in the area where mermaid do really exist. I have not seen one before but my ground father told me a story about mermaid. In their own time they use to see them come up and stretch themselves under the sun. So they planned to attack them and capture one of them. They did and the whole lots of them came to the rescue of the captured one. they finished almost a whole village before they were able to rescue the one captured. In short if anyone really care to do more research about this, they are welcome to contact me, and I can volunteer to take you down to the place where they still continue to trouble people from time to time.
But since the time we stated to use a lot of outboard engines in our area they seem to be disappearing. I am actually planning to make a movie about this for the world to see. I do think I have a full story to tell about the mermaid existence.
IM A MERMAID. AND MIKE ILL TAKE YOU UP ON YOUR OFFER :p MUAHAHAHAHAHAA MERMAIDS 4 LYF
Mermaids a not real.
Its only the sailors Imagination
Sometimes Long Voyages without food
and expecting something like half human half fish.
i do believe in mermaids,they exist but who doesnt believe then they are stupid.but they will believe soon when they see one.there some mermaids that there evil and some is not evil.
XD theres different kind of mermaids.
of course we exist how else could anyone creat such lovely and not so lovely depictions of us had no one ever seen us….. just believe or dont believe it makes no difference we exist and we are mamals and we nurse our young well past the age of 5
i do agre lol this is one ugly,hideous mermaid.besides it as i shoud call it is died and dry out .besides yuck what hapend to its hair.