I'll be honest. I honestly couldn't care less about whether or not mermaids exist. If they do exist, then that's awesome, and I hope I get to dissect one someday. If they don't exist, oh smurfing well. We already accept them as being mythical anyway. Being imaginary isn't far off.

But it's like Dak said. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.Just because we've never found one doesn't mean there aren't any. I mean, I'm not going to act like the same government who said pizza is a vegetable is right about mermaids.

Fun fact: the idea of mermaids possibly originated when sailors saw manatees ("sea cows") and categorized them as mythical mermaids. Probably under the influence of rum and/or being afflicted with scurvy.