are mermaids real, sirens or whatever you call them.?

Question

are mermaids real? I've heard that they are and ripley's believe or not , showed a monkey headed mermaid

Answer 1

Actually there is such a thing as mermaids just not as we think of them as being. I learned in my biology class that a female sea cow after she has given birth to children take on the appearance of the upper portion of a female human thus when sailors on the sea who had been lonely without a wife or a girl saw one of these they would think it was a woman with a fishes tail and so came the name of Mer-maid......(some of the men actually fell in love with them.....weird hunh?) so there is a scientific proof that mermaids exist but not in the way we think of them.....but ya never know.........they live in the carribbean.......Oh and the scientific name for sea cows/mermaids is "Sirenia"........*hint hint*.......they say that sea cows are going extinct so maybe mermaids have already gone extinct.....
Good Luck

Answer 2

Tales of mermaids are nearly universal. The first known mermaid stories appeared in Assyria, ca. 1000 BCE. Atargatis, the mother of Assyrian queen Semiramis, was a goddess who loved a mortal shepherd and in the process killed him. Ashamed, she jumped into a lake to take the form of a fish, but the waters would not conceal her divine nature. Thereafter, she took the form of a mermaid — human above the waist, fish below — though the earliest representations of Atargatis showed her as being a fish with a human head and legs, similar to the Babylonian Ea.




Nowadays the only ones you may here of are due to a disease.

Sirenomelia
Sirenomelia, also called "mermaid syndrome", is a rare congenital disorder in which a child is born with his or her legs fused together and the genitalia reduced. This condition is about as rare as conjoined twins and is usually fatal within a day or two of birth because of kidney and bladder complications, though there are three known survivors of this disorder alive today.

Answer 3

I do believe that in every fairy tale there is some amount of truth that the fairy tale is based upon. I also believe that there are animals that have become extinct due to several things and well, if mermaids ever did exist their bones would be found in the ocean, of which is still very new to scientists in discovering. Not to mention with currents and waves nothing ever stays the same unless it's compressed into the ocean floor. So who's to say if such a thing did exist or not, when there's no evidence proving or dis-proving it?

Answer 4

Well mermaids definitely do not exist and have not existed, well, perhaps in the way that we consider mermaid; "half complete human and half complete fish". Sirens, I believe, are just representations of the power women have over men and out of mans lack of ability to understand this, they created a creature which was able to control man.

Answer 5

Yes mermaid's do exist I know because I am one and for everyone who says they don't there's no proof 95% of the worlds oceans and rivers is undiscovered and there have been sightings in the past from Christopher Columbus and Henry Hudson and other people

Answer 6

Of course they are. Didn't you see the movie with Daryl Hanna?

Answer 7

If you want to believe in them, that's fine. There is no harm in believing.

Answer 8

heard only in fairy tales