the fact that this "documentary" convinced me in middle school that mermaids existed

Was looking to see if anyone else remembered where it was from.

I think I seen the dragon version where they try to make a plausible reality for mythical things. Interesting and fun show atleast dragon one was I hope the rest where.

one of my uncles genuinely believes this documentary is real. first time i met him all he did was tell everyone about how mermaids are real and that elon musk has buildings set up on the moon

@@swampdonkey1567 That's only the dragon one sadly, there they made it clear that dragons are fiction but tried to speculate how it WOULD be able to live. The Megalodon and mermaid ones are full crack

Or saving a shark. Or a whale.

I just assumed it was to keep their skin from drying out.

Lungs💀

@@metal_pipe9764 ?

@@metal_pipe9764 fun fact! some animals have lungs, hope this helps!

@@metal_pipe9764 he didn’t know whales had lungs they breathe air

Bone enthusiast lol

as someone who is not a bone enthusiast and knows nother or little more than the average person about bones even i find amusement in this thing that everybody above the age of 4 should be able to realize

Don't forget the arm that was floating, almost as if this was a plastic halloween decoration.

@weebbbop I love this comment so much. Started laughing so hard I spat all over myself. Take care my love!

Also, there is zero fucking chance a skeleton that complex would still be articulated in those conditions. There's zero flesh on the thing, it should have been there for months if not years, the bones would be falling apart in the first month.

My thoughts exactly, they clearly bought a cheap plastic mermaid skeleton meant as a halloween decoration, but the skull presumably looked too fake ever for their standards, so they used a different skull clearly picked up somewhere else.

I can confirm, I’m pretty sure that’s a Michaels mermaid skeleton with a different skull attached. The heads they come with are janky-looking, usually have fake hair glued on, and have a noticeable hole in the top so they can hang from a string. I have one that I use as a phone stand.

Espcailly given the stark difference in colors from the skull and the rest of the body. Besides like the obvious color shift that hand was a dead give away since our halloween skeleton has hands like that

It's obviously fake. There is no explanation needed, especially not one with so much effort.

the one with the hand is from the mermaid mocumentary

To add on to the "don't move them" thing, if a cetacean has stranded then its most likely sick or injured. Moving them around or pushing them back in the ocean will stress them out, and - since the reason they stranded themselves is still present - they'll just strand themselves again. The best care you can give a stranded cetacean is to call whatever your state's stranding network is, keep crowds away from the animal, keep them moist so they don't overheat or get sunburned, make sure water doesn't get in their blowhole, and dig holes around their fins to relieve pressure since their fins usually droop down. Don't get bit or tail slapped either, that will ruin your day. Source - me, former stranding network volunteer.

​@@DroneGardenStudiosWow, how many whales did you help?

@@rayhanmustakim7073 In the time I was with them I helped three bottlenosed dolphins (I guess that counts?). One was an orphan, one was a shark attack victim, and I think the third one had a lung infection but I can't remember cuz this was awhile ago. My main role was to get up at three in the morning and watch them for four hours to make sure they didn't drown in their sleep while they were in rehab. Probably doesn't sound as cool as the stranding in the video, but it was cool to me dammit. T_T

I'm curious as to how people think somebody could fish a mummified mermaid out of the ocean, even if you think mermaids are possible, the very definition of mummification is of something that's been dried out.

It comes out the other end of the whale, I believe.

Yeah I was gonna say; drying out is a huge threat to beached critters in general

Unless the quality was good originally, and you purposefully lower it after editing, which I believe is common for cryptid videos.

@@jairomenares2089 That would be a way to do it, yes.

What?

I prefer depictions of more monstrous mermaids

Unfortunately he's a fish biologist and not a whale biologist. You can especially tell by his lack of excitement at the _precious ambergris._

@Snacks256 I know I'm trying not to belittle him. I'm trying to enlighten him, and i'm not even a Cetacea Biologist anyway.

Yeah, those are definitely two different shots.

I hope the next time you want toast you open the bag and its all end slices

Those are clearly ocean creatures. No sea creature has ever been found outside of the seas.

Sup Frank

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Whales aren’t fish you egg