Are "Mermaids" a fact or fiction?

Answer 1

They are purely fiction although theres some sections of the scientific community who believe that the missing link come from a form of human that lived in water although its only hypothetical and theres very little if any proof that this may of occurred.

Answer 2

Fiction.

Answer 3

Fiction. However, any male who had not seen a woman for a long time will see a woman in just about anything. The story goes that the mermaid is actually the dugong - a marine mammal. The Malay word is duyong referred to as the sea cow and found in Asian waters. Heard the joke of the sex obsessed person? Went to a psychiatrist for assistance. "Everything I see is women". He was put on a word association test. Asked what the wind shild wiper suggest? His immediate reply was "women" Asked to explain he replied "The wiper reminds him of two swinging boobs". He! He!

Answer 4

Mermaids are cats skulls glued onto the skeleton of a fish. There's also the belief around the British Isles that mermaids reside in the skins of seals.

Answer 5

Mermaids are strictly fiction, although it is believed that sailors often mistook dugongs and manatees as mermaids because of the visible breasts on the females. You have to understand that sailing ship sailors were at sea for months, even years at a time and were starved for female companionship. I suppose that even a dugong or manatee look good after while.

Answer 6

Mermaids are fiction.

Answer 7

Seamen who were out to sea for a long time got so lonely for their sweethearts and were so malnutritioned on those long journeys in uncharted waters that their imaginations played tricks on them. They actually thought they saw mermaids or heard them singing. It's almost like battle fatigue. Your brain makes up pleasant things so you don't go crazy.
Most of the time all the mermaid was, was seaweed or dead jelly fish etc.
The same happened when they saw a Narwhale. They thought it was a unicorn.

Answer 8

I believe , That they are desperately a "want" to be fact .. Which is why they are so enchanting to think of and continue to desire for. It is calming sometimes to wonder about ... Life in the water with the other sea animals but then think about the oil spills and toxic chemicals dumped in the water and how would they fix it when it is hard enough for us to fix our own messes up here... poor creatures...

Answer 9

They are actually fiction, but l've read articles with photos that resemble them . Even the fishermen that accidentally caught them swear by their existence. Most people would laugh reading this but all l can say is...many things in this world are still unknown to man.

Answer 10

Mermaids are the wives of abominable snowmen. No one has ever been able to proof it as no one can figure out where they live together to look for them, but they are real.