MufasaLion:


Bring evidence. I hate hearsays. We grew up with this crap hearsays with no proof.

I say go to instablog page,

Your need evidence, your brain has root problem.
Did I say hear say, I said I have seen a mermaid myself.

achu442:


I say go to instablog page,

Your need evidence, your brain has root problem.
Did I say hear say, I said I have seen a mermaid myself.

Dude, why the insult? You really can't make a point without insult? Grow up, son!

Insatblog video still doesn't justify your claim anyways.

MufasaLion:


Dude, why the insult? You really can't make a point without insult? Grow up, son!

Insatblog video still doesn't justify your claim anyways.

Listen to yourself, you have video evidence, and paper evidence and you still want evidence.

Go look for a mermaid yourself...Hope you'll find one.

Na people like Una dey die dumb.

Cos even if them teach Una about atom for school, Una no go still pass, because you don't believe.

90% of the things we apply as humans are out of believe.

I said , I have seen one, your dispute doesn't justify my claim either...Cos I didn't even mention your name.

9jah:


I need a scientific evidence to believe anything - Im sorry I need proof - A picture not photoshopped,Video-Skeleton of a marmaids anything that can be admissible as facts -If you show me I will shake your hands ,but until then I wont believe you.Whenever you encounter marmaids next time -Please grab a hair,a tooth,get a fishing net and get her trapped -I want it to be true aswell-Scientist need evidence to believe anything as facts.

Can you sayi also that ghosts, spirits and aliens dont exist because you have not seen their pictures?

achu442:


Says who? Mermaids are very real
I have seen myself, twice sef.

Check instablog page, the one caught in a beach this year.

Go and read about Asanga, true life story of mermaid in Calabar.

Just that,they aren't beautiful as shown in stories..They are ugly, wild and very deadly.

anansa you mean?
It Only exist in the head of Calabar people.
It doesn't exist

Emmanfemcy:
Its possible for the man to have seeing such thing. I know many will not believe that their certain fish that If you cut them and boil them it won't boil, but if you return it back to the stream it will join back. In this Nigeria there's fish with headlight on it

just see the lies you've been brainwashed with

imagrg:
May peace rest in his soul.

He live a fulfilled life.

But wait oh. The mermaid story wasn't fabricated. I personally saw one on a cool Sunday at the River Nigeria when I was on a fishing expedition in 2011.

keep deceiving yourself

showafrica:


Ungodly spirits are real or should I say unidentified moving objects both on land and in the sea. If you don't believe, then you don't have any reason to believe there is God. If you have data watch some YouTube videos on mamaids... There are some of the videos you can't explain.

fake videos by swindlers looking for youtube views to generate money

jrobbins:


I've worked in water for years. no evidence of mermaids

God bless you my brother.
Let them keep deceiving themselves

justscorchone:
Mamiwater kontos go sweet die, hello. Everywhere go just wet, shey you don leave container inside bucket of water for one week see as e dey draw. Chei abeg shey any mamiwater dey this NL.

are you okay?

jrobbins:


I've worked in water for years. no evidence of mermaids

They have transformed into beauty queens, slay mamas. Marine powers are real. In the olden days, it was believed that Marine power is next in line after heavenly powers.

MilitaryLady:
are you okay?

I'm not actually now that you asked

Afobaba33:



how can you see something that's a spirit with your physical eyes?

Unless she wanted you to see her!!!
Believe Me,they Truly exist
Well I will say it is a privilege to see one.
And she told me the cure for epilepsy

Are you for real?

justscorchone:


I'm not actually now that you asked

stay away from weed next time cos it's not good for you

Oppy2k2:
Spiritual forces exist. Only God that protects his children.

This is what I have been understanding lately, I do not doubt it. The spiritual is always interacting with the physical, but the physical is completely unaware, which puts the physical at a complete disadvantage, except for the spiritually inclined (either good or bad).

Else, how would she know he's name, or that he was a guitar boy? The spirit had been watching him prior.

9jah:


Africans are the most delusional people on earth -Rather than Africans to study myths , do a basic thorough research to find out scientific evidence of things ,no; they become lazy, and fill in gaps with a god or myth - No wonder they worship anything-God of thunder, God of the sky,God of the moon, God of the wind lol etc . If you dont have any scientific evidence of anything to show me, with facts in this modern age - I dont believe you.

No, Mermaids Do Not Exist
UNIQUELY CURSED DISCOURSE
SCIENCE

No, Mermaids Do Not Exist
What Animal Planet’s fake documentaries don’t tell you about the ocean.

No credible evidence of the existence of mermaids has ever been found
Courtesy of Animal Planet

This week, Animal Planet aired two fake documentaries claiming to show scientific evidence of mermaids. I say “fake documentaries” because that’s exactly what The Body Found and The New Evidence are. The “scientists” interviewed in the show are actors, and there’s a brief disclaimer during the end credits. However, the Twitter conversation surrounding the show (#Mermaids) reveals that many viewers are unaware that the show isn’t real. (Sample Tweets: “After watching the documentary #Mermaids the body found … I believe there are mermaids!!!” and “90% of the ocean is unexplored and you’re telling me #mermaids don’t exist”—which has been retweeted more than 800 times.) It is, after all, airing on a network that claims to focus on educating viewers about the natural world. “The Body Found” was rightfully described “the rotting carcass of science television,” and I was shocked to see Animal Planet air a sequel.

As a marine biologist, I can tell you unequivocally that despite millennia of humans exploring the ocean, no credible evidence of the existence of mermaids has ever been found. Some claim that manatees are the source of the legend, but you’d have to be at sea an awfully long time to think that a manatee is a beautiful woman. Sure, new species are discovered all the time, but while a new species of bird or insect is fascinating, it doesn’t mean “anything is possible,” and it is certainly not equivalent to finding a group of talking, thinking humanoids with fish tails covering half of their bodies. The confusion generated by “The Body Found” got to be so significant that the United States government issued an official statement on the matter.


When I started angrily posting about this on Facebook and Twitter, many of my nonscientist friends asked me why it matters if people believe in mermaids. It matters because the ocean is extremely important. It provides jobs for tens of millions of people and food for billions. However, many marine resources are being overexploited and mismanaged, leaving us in serious danger of losing them forever. Policy solutions can help, but if you are so ignorant about what is really happening in the ocean that you believe that there are organisms that are half human and half fish, you’re almost certainly unaware of the important problems, much less how to solve them. Even if you don’t believe in mythical creatures, you may be unaware of the severity of the crises facing our oceans. Now that we’ve established that mermaids aren’t real, here are 5 other important things about the ocean that everyone should know.

1. The oceans are not inexhaustible, we’re currently overharvesting many resources, and the consequences can be disastrous.

According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, 32 percent of all global fisheries are “overexploited, depleted, or recovering” and another 50 percent are fully exploited (as of 2010). Overfishing is the single greatest threat to the ocean environment, but this isn’t just an environmental problem. Fish are a critically important natural resource, with more than 3 billion people getting at least 15 percent of their protein from the ocean. Although human population growth is still increasing, we won’t be able to increase the amount of fish we’re taking from the ocean.*


2. Current fishing practices aren’t just problematic for the fish species we are trying to catch.

Most commercial fisheries don’t use a rod and reel, catching one fish at a time and throwing back what they don’t want (or aren’t allowed to sell). A single longline can be many miles long and have tens of thousands of baited hooks; purse seine nets can be miles across; and the largest trawl net on the market can fit several 747 airplanes in its opening. Bycatch, which occurs when fishermen catch animals swimming near their target catch, is unavoidable with fishing gear this large, but the problem can be unexpectedly severe. In some fisheries, 90 percent of the catch by weight is bycatch, which includes endangered sea turtles and sea birds as well as marine mammals. Some types of fishing, such as dynamite fishing and cyanide fishing, can heavily damage the environment. Dragging a heavy trawl net over the seafloor destroys countless fragile and ecologically important organisms, the equivalent of hunting for rabbits by bulldozing a forest and killing all the deer, birds, insects, and plants that live there. The FAO estimates that 7 million tons of bycatch are caught and discarded every year.


3. Just because a fish is from “the ocean” doesn’t mean you should release it in the nearest body of salt water.

Invasive species are non-native organisms released into a new region. In the case of invasive fish, they are often introduced by aquarium hobbyists who release a fish when it gets too big for its tank. Often, there are no predators in the new habitat capable of eating these newly introduced animals. Lionfish, native to the Indo-Pacific, are believed to have been introduced to the Atlantic coast of the United States by aquarium hobbyists in the last few decades. Lionfish have no native predators in the Atlantic, and non-native predators are often deterred by their venomous spines. A single female lionfish can release millions of eggs in a year, so it’s no surprise that lionfish are now found throughout the Caribbean and as far north as New York, and they are outcompeting or eating native, economically important fishes such as snapper and grouper.

4. Sharks aren’t a threat to you, they’re important, and they’re in trouble

The average American has only a 1 in 3,800,000 chance of being killed by a shark. You’re more likely to be killed by a lawnmower or a vending machine, and more likely to be bitten by a stranger on the subway. Like all predators, sharks help keep the ocean in balance by eating the sick, the weak, and the dying. However, sharks are suffering from overfishing more than most marine species, with 1 in 6 species of shark, skate, or ray (and 1 in 3 species of open ocean shark) considered “Threatened with Extinction” by the IUCN Red List.



5. Although mermaids don’t exist, the ocean is still full of wonder, and it needs your help!

What you do affects the ocean even if you live far away, and there’s a lot that you can do to help. Purchase sustainable seafood. Use reusable grocery bags instead of single-use plastic bags, which can choke sea turtles or sea birds. Support politicians who support ocean conservation, or encourage your current elected officials to support the ocean. Most importantly, ask your friends and family to do the same.

If I’ve ruined your sense of wonder about the oceans, don’t fret. The absence of mermaids certainly doesn’t mean that the oceans are boring. As deep sea ecologist Andrew David Thaler said, “Look, the ocean is a vast, unexplored frontier. The deep sea is Earth’s last great wilderness. When we do venture into the abyss, we find creatures more diverse and incredible that our relatively limited imaginations can conceive. Don’t insult that wonder with something as utterly mundane as ‘human with fish tail.’ ”

Several of my marine scientist colleagues and I subjected ourselves to three hours of fake mermaid documentaries, live-tweeting and correcting inaccuracies as we watched.




BY DAVID SHIFFMAN

Sir thanks for this ur thesis,,,,kindly go to bonny island ,rivers state...abi for opobo my ex roomie uncles saw mermaid little child sef n had to appease the sea.....mermaids! exist!!

adebenson155:
Fable

You call it a fable? You have a lot to learn about this world you live in.

Ayt27:


This is what I have been understanding lately, I do not doubt it. The spiritual is always interacting with the physical, but the physical is completely unaware, which puts the physical at a complete disadvantage, except for the spiritually inclined (either good or bad).

Else, how would she know he's name, or that he was a guitar boy? The spirit had been watching him prior.

Let me quickly share with u a story

In the year 2001 I gained admission to do pre degree at Lautech, Ogbomosho. That was d very first time I traveled on my own to a longer distance. We were based in Akure and that was were I attended my primary and secondary school.
When I got to Ogbomosho, I quickly finished my registration and went back home cus I stayed with someone who was living off campus and also a student of Lautech. Around afternoon, I was so bored at home cus I have no friends and I decided to stroll out of the arrear to another area just to get accustomed to Ogbomosho. I have no family members nor friends as at that time in Ogbomosho.

As I was trekking on a lonely path that afternoon, I sighted a mad man coming along the opposite direction, a chronic mad man with a very rough and twisted hair. when he got to where I was . He paused, and he mentioned my Name. He raised up his thump and gave me accolade, while mentioning my name. I was speechless how this mad man could mention my names several times without mincing it.

This shows all of us have an identity, satan, evil spirits, demons and God and his angel knows us by names.

It baffles me when someone says there is no spiritual forces sometimes, i don't argue will such person, I just leave him to his folly.

PediakAuthor:

I watched the clip several times, but the purported mermaid seems like an alien, not like the pretty ones we often see in imaginative pictures o... Lol

Me i dont know about the Walt Disney type but there are mermaids.

achu442:


Listen to yourself, you have video evidence, and paper evidence and you still want evidence.

Go look for a mermaid yourself...Hope you'll find one.

Na people like Una dey die dumb.

Cos even if them teach Una about atom for school, Una no go still pass, because you don't believe.

90% of the things we apply as humans are out of believe.

I said , I have seen one, your dispute doesn't justify my claim either...Cos I didn't even mention your name.

You're dumber than imagined.

Afobaba33:


how can you see something that's a spirit with your physical eyes?
Unless she wanted you to see her!!! Believe Me,they Truly exist Well I will say it is a privilege to see one. And she told me the cure for epilepsy

Can u pls tell me d cure for epilepsy?

omoadeleye:
Nice

Mmmm.. u say nice?

the world is ruled by those forces

Oppy2k2:
Spiritual forces exist. Only God that protects his children.

so you fed your mind with those logical garbages that disproves the existence of spiritual things...i pity your life

9jah:


Africans are the most delusional people on earth -Rather than Africans to study myths , do a basic thorough research to find out scientific evidence of things ,no; they become lazy, and fill in gaps with a god or myth - No wonder they worship anything-God of thunder, God of the sky,God of the moon, God of the wind lol etc . If you dont have any scientific evidence of anything to show me, with facts in this modern age - I dont believe you.

No, Mermaids Do Not Exist
UNIQUELY CURSED DISCOURSE
SCIENCE

No, Mermaids Do Not Exist
What Animal Planet’s fake documentaries don’t tell you about the ocean.

No credible evidence of the existence of mermaids has ever been found
Courtesy of Animal Planet

This week, Animal Planet aired two fake documentaries claiming to show scientific evidence of mermaids. I say “fake documentaries” because that’s exactly what The Body Found and The New Evidence are. The “scientists” interviewed in the show are actors, and there’s a brief disclaimer during the end credits. However, the Twitter conversation surrounding the show (#Mermaids) reveals that many viewers are unaware that the show isn’t real. (Sample Tweets: “After watching the documentary #Mermaids the body found … I believe there are mermaids!!!” and “90% of the ocean is unexplored and you’re telling me #mermaids don’t exist”—which has been retweeted more than 800 times.) It is, after all, airing on a network that claims to focus on educating viewers about the natural world. “The Body Found” was rightfully described “the rotting carcass of science television,” and I was shocked to see Animal Planet air a sequel.

As a marine biologist, I can tell you unequivocally that despite millennia of humans exploring the ocean, no credible evidence of the existence of mermaids has ever been found. Some claim that manatees are the source of the legend, but you’d have to be at sea an awfully long time to think that a manatee is a beautiful woman. Sure, new species are discovered all the time, but while a new species of bird or insect is fascinating, it doesn’t mean “anything is possible,” and it is certainly not equivalent to finding a group of talking, thinking humanoids with fish tails covering half of their bodies. The confusion generated by “The Body Found” got to be so significant that the United States government issued an official statement on the matter.


When I started angrily posting about this on Facebook and Twitter, many of my nonscientist friends asked me why it matters if people believe in mermaids. It matters because the ocean is extremely important. It provides jobs for tens of millions of people and food for billions. However, many marine resources are being overexploited and mismanaged, leaving us in serious danger of losing them forever. Policy solutions can help, but if you are so ignorant about what is really happening in the ocean that you believe that there are organisms that are half human and half fish, you’re almost certainly unaware of the important problems, much less how to solve them. Even if you don’t believe in mythical creatures, you may be unaware of the severity of the crises facing our oceans. Now that we’ve established that mermaids aren’t real, here are 5 other important things about the ocean that everyone should know.

1. The oceans are not inexhaustible, we’re currently overharvesting many resources, and the consequences can be disastrous.

According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, 32 percent of all global fisheries are “overexploited, depleted, or recovering” and another 50 percent are fully exploited (as of 2010). Overfishing is the single greatest threat to the ocean environment, but this isn’t just an environmental problem. Fish are a critically important natural resource, with more than 3 billion people getting at least 15 percent of their protein from the ocean. Although human population growth is still increasing, we won’t be able to increase the amount of fish we’re taking from the ocean.*


2. Current fishing practices aren’t just problematic for the fish species we are trying to catch.

Most commercial fisheries don’t use a rod and reel, catching one fish at a time and throwing back what they don’t want (or aren’t allowed to sell). A single longline can be many miles long and have tens of thousands of baited hooks; purse seine nets can be miles across; and the largest trawl net on the market can fit several 747 airplanes in its opening. Bycatch, which occurs when fishermen catch animals swimming near their target catch, is unavoidable with fishing gear this large, but the problem can be unexpectedly severe. In some fisheries, 90 percent of the catch by weight is bycatch, which includes endangered sea turtles and sea birds as well as marine mammals. Some types of fishing, such as dynamite fishing and cyanide fishing, can heavily damage the environment. Dragging a heavy trawl net over the seafloor destroys countless fragile and ecologically important organisms, the equivalent of hunting for rabbits by bulldozing a forest and killing all the deer, birds, insects, and plants that live there. The FAO estimates that 7 million tons of bycatch are caught and discarded every year.


3. Just because a fish is from “the ocean” doesn’t mean you should release it in the nearest body of salt water.

Invasive species are non-native organisms released into a new region. In the case of invasive fish, they are often introduced by aquarium hobbyists who release a fish when it gets too big for its tank. Often, there are no predators in the new habitat capable of eating these newly introduced animals. Lionfish, native to the Indo-Pacific, are believed to have been introduced to the Atlantic coast of the United States by aquarium hobbyists in the last few decades. Lionfish have no native predators in the Atlantic, and non-native predators are often deterred by their venomous spines. A single female lionfish can release millions of eggs in a year, so it’s no surprise that lionfish are now found throughout the Caribbean and as far north as New York, and they are outcompeting or eating native, economically important fishes such as snapper and grouper.

4. Sharks aren’t a threat to you, they’re important, and they’re in trouble

The average American has only a 1 in 3,800,000 chance of being killed by a shark. You’re more likely to be killed by a lawnmower or a vending machine, and more likely to be bitten by a stranger on the subway. Like all predators, sharks help keep the ocean in balance by eating the sick, the weak, and the dying. However, sharks are suffering from overfishing more than most marine species, with 1 in 6 species of shark, skate, or ray (and 1 in 3 species of open ocean shark) considered “Threatened with Extinction” by the IUCN Red List.



5. Although mermaids don’t exist, the ocean is still full of wonder, and it needs your help!

What you do affects the ocean even if you live far away, and there’s a lot that you can do to help. Purchase sustainable seafood. Use reusable grocery bags instead of single-use plastic bags, which can choke sea turtles or sea birds. Support politicians who support ocean conservation, or encourage your current elected officials to support the ocean. Most importantly, ask your friends and family to do the same.

If I’ve ruined your sense of wonder about the oceans, don’t fret. The absence of mermaids certainly doesn’t mean that the oceans are boring. As deep sea ecologist Andrew David Thaler said, “Look, the ocean is a vast, unexplored frontier. The deep sea is Earth’s last great wilderness. When we do venture into the abyss, we find creatures more diverse and incredible that our relatively limited imaginations can conceive. Don’t insult that wonder with something as utterly mundane as ‘human with fish tail.’ ”

Several of my marine scientist colleagues and I subjected ourselves to three hours of fake mermaid documentaries, live-tweeting and correcting inaccuracies as we watched.




BY DAVID SHIFFMAN

no mind am

Incandescent:


You make me laugh with the depth of your ignorance.

Mr professor..Mr Scientific evidence. You make me laugh.

If dem born you well.. go to any river tonight and say out loudly that they don't exist.

You better be rooted in Christ and stop this foolery you call intelligence.

MufasaLion:


Bring evidence. I hate hearsays. We grew up with this crap hearsays with no proof.

I hate trying to persuade your kind of people but If you stay in Port Harcourt, there's a dance called "Owo-Oha" in ikwerre and it's danced every 4years at Rumuolumini town hall.. it's a dance of the waters and it's still in practice till today... I dare you to come to Iwofe River, not even in the night oh! Come day time, look to the river and abuse "Mami Waters"... of course, nothing should happen to you if they don't exist.. but if you do this thing on the last day of the dance and you leave Iwofe River alive and healthy as you came, come back here and quote me...

showafrica:


I have pictures of UFOs, Aliens, mamaids and even ghosts they are all unidentified. There is a level you will get to in science, you will start understanding my language for now, you are reading from books and what you are told....its deeper than that

Even science has stuff like meta-physics if I'm not mistaken..

Mixedfraction:


I hate trying to persuade your kind of people but If you stay in Port Harcourt, there's a dance called "Owo-Oha" in ikwerre and it's danced every 4years at Rumuolumini town hall.. it's a dance of the waters and it's still in practice till today... I dare you to come to Iwofe River, not even in the night oh! Come day time, look to the river and abuse "Mami Waters"... of course, nothing should happen to you if they don't exist.. but if you do this thing on the last day of the dance and you leave Iwofe River alive and healthy as you came, come back here and quote me...

Trash!

I ask for real evidence you're telling me crap. And even if it that shit happens, who told you it is from your mermaids? Don't let people fool you.


We all have seen UFOs evidence and it's authenticated!

Your mermaid is a fairytale.

Oppy2k2:


Can u pls tell me d cure for epilepsy?

That dude is running his mouth for cheap clout.