Some people declare that mermaids are real from the aquatic ape theory which states that “early hominids descended from the trees to… water. There the hominids lived for several million years, developing distinctive features before moving onto dry ground’’(Westrup). Therefore mermaids exist from human evolution that took place underwater. In Spite of that theory, there are three aspects that may contradict the reality of the theory The first example is that hominids in the water could not have defended themselves from crocodiles, sharks, etc. secondly there are no fossils of aquatic apes, and even though there are fossils of humans evolving from ape, there are no confirmed mermaid fossils. Last but not least "There may be gaps in the fossil
