Evidence Supporting the Existence of Mermaids

It was believed that a creature of upper human bodyas pretty women but like a semi aquatic creature. In
and lower fish body had circulated the oceans backthe 13th century, a person Physiologus in his book of
5,000 B.C.  There were also some religious mythsanimal study had described about real ‘mermaid'
that these mermaids rose from the depth of theconsisting of upper woman body and lower fish body.
oceans to educate man.  A-well known historian andLater in the book of Historia Monstrorum, the author
scientists, Pliny the Elder had documented thehad reported the union of mermaid near the Rive Nile.
accounts of these ‘real mermaids'. He was quiteIn 1608, Henry Hudson had explored the existence of
sure about the existence of this creature and calledmermaid near the region of Russia. He described a
them as scaled and rough all over.  After thatcreature looking like man from upper part having a
conviction, thousands of fishers and sailors worldwidespeckled and porpoise like a mackerel. He said that
had reported of seeing the ‘real mermaids'that creature had white skin, woman breasts and long
swimming close to their ships.hair at back. Recently in 2004, a ‘mermaid' corpse
In this context, Christopher Columbus also described hiswas seen in the ocean of Chennai after the account
encounter with a ‘mermaid' in 1493 at the ocean ofof tsunami.  However, researcher believes that
Haiti. He stated that these creatures came out ofstories about existence of real mermaid are merely
water slightly and they were not beautiful asexample of misunderstanding. While other believes that
mentioned in fictions. Later, in an antiquated text ofmermaid is the actual creature that lives into depth of
history named as Speculum Regale, it was writtenthe sea and now they have become extinct due to
around 1250 in Norway, the mermaids are not depictedthe affects of environmental pollution.