are mermaids real?

Answer 1

As real as the Easter Bunny, Santa Clause, and the Tooth Fairy! LOL However, there is a story behind the mermaids. It is believed that sightings of Manatees may have started the mythical beings.
I googled it and found this passage to be interesting!

"Legends of these half-human, half-fish humanoids have circulated for millennia, even as far back as 5000 BCE.[citation needed] It has been widely suggested or implied that manatees or dugongs could be behind the myth of the mermaid. An example supporting this theory would be that Christopher Columbus had logged that he had seen mermaids on his journey to the new world, but thought they would be more attractive. These large aquatic mammals are notable for the way in which they carry their young, cradled in their arms much as a human would carry a baby. It is possible that sailors seeing these unfamiliar beasts for the first time, would assume that they had in fact stumbled across some sort of humanoid species, and consequently spread their accounts of the sightings through their homelands on their return from voyages. It has even been posited that the traditional image of a mermaid with long flowing hair could be attributed to manatees breaking the ocean surface underneath patches of seaweed, and giving the unfamiliar observer the impression of having long hair. Sightings from first-hand witnesses generally describe mermaids who do not talk and have green or black hair."

Answer 2

A mermaid is a legendary sea creature having the head and upper body of a woman and the tail of a fish.

The mermaid is one of the most popular figures in world folklore. Her characteristic appearance is as a nubile young girl, with long hair and a fish tail, carrying a comb and a mirror. Unlike the other part-human, part-animal creatures of myth and folklore, mermaids have been the object of many sightings up to the present day; it is as if there is a desire to prove the reality of mermaids, which makes them closer to creatures such as the Loch Ness monster and the Yeti than to centaurs and sirens. Another expression of this desire to believe can be found in the many fake mermaids, usually made of the upper torso of a monkey and the tail of a salmon, which have been exhibited in fairs and circuses.

Where do the myths of mermaids come from? Somewhere in the later Middle Ages, the fish-woman mermaid supplanted the bird-woman siren as the creature believed to lure sailors astray.

Male mer-people, or tritons, are shown in art, particularly in the Renaissance.

Modern literary representations of the mermaid are dominated by the influential Little Mermaid of Hans Christian Anderson. Here the mer-world is a systematic inversion of our own, in which not birds, but fish, fly in through open windows.

Answer 3

what's a male mermaid called?

Answer 4

There is Proof but people just don't believe it

Answer 5

"what's a male mermaid called?"

A merman.

Answer 6

yes.in the other dimention they went to when humans came to be....gods and goddesses i ahve answered this question soo much.......

Answer 7

I believe in them... no I am kidding, I don't believe in them.

Answer 8

no. at least not in this dimension...

Answer 9

no