What do you think about Mermaids? Do they exist?

There are no such things as merfolk, and there is no such thing as a mergene. Proof of their non-existence is obvious for anyone with the intelligence to employ critical thinking skills.

A sentient species always leaves behind artifacts of its existence. Merfolk could not exist at depth and be even vaguely similiar in appearance to humans, so they would have to live in fairly shallow depths, so they are definitely not "hiding". Artifacts would include architecture, articles of day to day life, such as tools, jewelry, and possibly written records, carved onto stone slabs. Merfolk items would be so different from anything a land-based lifeform could produce that it would be instantly identifiable.

No such evidence has ever came to light - and in our time of submarines, underwater sonar imaging, remote camera robots, bathyspheres, privately funded treasure hunts, scuba divers, underwater nuclear tests, etc. it is impossible for a shallow-depth culture of "mermaids" to exist and not be found.

The human body, with its specialized developments, has designed itself for land living in a gravitational environment. A merfolk would not need the body to be so bipedally designed and the buoyancy of the water itself offsetting the pull of gravity allows for a more symmetrical alignment of the organs from front to back instead of from side to side.

You cannot "evolve" backwards. By the time Homo Sapiens had evolved from Homo Neanderthalis, there was a millions of years interval between us and the time our mammalian ancestors differentiated from amphibian life. No such "regressive mutation" is possible - therefore human/fish "merfolk" are impossible.

Aquatic creatures, as stated above, evolved along far different lines than land-based animals. Even if a branch of fish could have developed human level intelligence (which is not possible - our brain development is a direct result of our environment and cannot be duplicated in the ocean) the closest possibility is the dolphin, which is the only sea creature that shows evidence of cognitive function anywhere near our level. There is absolutely no environmental reason for a cognitively developing sea creature to physically develop into a half human. It doesn't work like that.

As to "magic" - if "spells" actually worked to transform humans into their wishes, the world would be full of vampires, werewolves, unicorns, merfolk, elves, dwarves, etc. etc. ad nauseum, and all of these "emerging races" would be hunted by humans as oddities, captured for display, or studied for scientific purposes. If humans could transform into any creature, don't you think they'd "become" the property of the U.S. government so fast it'd make your head swim? (a little like the Monsters vs. Aliens movie).

***There are no spells or potions to do this, and anyone telling you that mermaids exist is either lying, or delusional.***

No, humankind is the only sentient race on earth, and all these fantasy creatures are nothing more than wishful thinking. There are no mermaids, vampires, werewolves, faerie queens, lake monsters, or bigfoot/yetis.

No dead mermaid has ever been found. The Youtube video is a hoax, and a rather obvious one at that - the "mermaid" is on the beach in a "frozen" crawling position. Sorry, dead bodies don't do that. A mermaid crawling back to the water would have collapsed, face down. Also, the cameraman is eerily silent. No emotion whatsoever. Looks like a college art video to me.

I am a Nurse - real education, real experience.

There is plenty of proof, That mermaids exist... But 90% of this worlds population is just to lazy to research that subject..... For I know that they are real and I will never doubt their existences again... No matter what anyone states.............

Mermaid;merman: Mythical creatures inhabiting the depth of the seas;their bodies are combination of human heads,arms and torsos,and the tail of a fish.The mail of the species is called merman,the female is called mermaid.

I already mentioned them a mythical creatures.Like a sphinx,they don't have their existence.You say that you don't believe in werewolves and vampires then let me know who made you to believe in....

Does no one READ what Bearclaw says? Or don't they understand it? There are no faeries, vampires, mermaids, etc.

"Anything" is NOT possible. Try cramming a chocolate cake into your gas tank and see how far your car goes.

Humans cannot and do not evolve into fish. Reread Bearclaw's answer.

No, that is quite impossible. Even if they did exist, they would have been proved to exist long ago. How old are you?

Mermaids are awesome but I don't think they exist xD

I agree with Super! that beings like mermaids almost certainly exist somewhere in the universe. Whether or not they exist on earth is much less certain. Historically, what sailors thought were mermaids were more likely to be the steller sea cow or a manatee.

Most of the earth is covered in water, and we know very little about what there is in the deepest parts of the oceans, so I would not rule out the possibility of mermaids on earth, but if they do exist on earth, there probably are not very many of them, and they probably do not look very human.

The mythical image of mermaids most likely does not exist. However, considering the fact that the majority of the oceans inhabitants are still being discovered, it is entirely possibly that some form of meramid-like creature does exist deep in the ocean trenches.

Look up Origins of the Selkie Folk, legends of the Orkneys(Islands part of Scotland)

I dont beileve so because wre the only humans on earth, no such thing as a human and fish fuc*ing