Mermaid Hoax Story Continues After Animal Planet Episode Airing

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It is a pure mermaid hoax, says the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA. After Animal Planet aired an episode on May 26, 2013, called “Mermaids: New Evidence”, people were excited to know whether mermaids do really exist. The episode even featured an interview with Dr. Paul Roberts, reportedly a NOAA scientist, who claimed that mermaids are real and they’re there out in the deep ocean.

SEE: Dr Paul Robertson Mermaid Website and Others Blocked (Photo)

SEE: Is Mermaid Real: New Evidence Animal Planet Interview (VIDEO)

NOAA released a statement saying that “No evidence of aquatic humanoids has ever been found.”

Read the full statement:

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Mermaids — those half-human, half-fish sirens of the sea — are legendary sea creatures chronicled in maritime cultures since time immemorial. The ancient Greek epic poet Homer wrote of them in The Odyssey. In the ancient Far East, mermaids were the wives of powerful sea-dragons, and served as trusted messengers between their spouses and the emperors on land. The aboriginal people of Australia call mermaids yawkyawks – a name that may refer to their mesmerizing songs.

The belief in mermaids may have arisen at the very dawn of our species. Magical female figures first appear in cave paintings in the late Paleolithic (Stone Age) period some 30,000 years ago, when modern humans gained dominion over the land and, presumably, began to sail the seas. Half-human creatures, called chimeras, also abound in mythology — in addition to mermaids, there were wise centaurs, wild satyrs, and frightful minotaurs, to name but a few.

But are mermaids real? No evidence of aquatic humanoids has ever been found. Why, then, do they occupy the collective unconscious of nearly all seafaring peoples? That’s a question best left to historians, philosophers, and anthropologists.
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Is this mermaid story an elaborate hoax? By the way, the Animal Planet mermaid episode drew millions of viewers on Sunday night.

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