Aquatic Ape Theory Leads To Mermaid Hunt On Animal Planet, Starts This Sunday


The world is full of surprises, discoveries and endless possibilities. On Animal Planet this Sunday, they will be airing a two-hour special about the possibility of mermaids. The show is science fiction, based on some real events and scientific theory that suggests how it's possible mermaids are related to people. One possibility for the existence of mermaids is the Aquatic Ape Theory. The theory claims that humans had an aquatic stage in our evolutionary past, which probably explains our affinity for expensive oceanfront properties.


From Discovery.com:
As the crescendo to MONSTER WEEK, a weeklong network programming stunt airing from May 21 to May 28, MERMAIDS: THE BODY FOUND is a story about evolutionary possibility grounded in a radical scientific theory – the Aquatic Ape Theory, which claims that humans had an aquatic stage in our evolutionary past. While coastal flooding millions of years ago turned some of our ancestors inland, is it possible that one group of our ancestors didn’t retreat from water but rather went in deeper? Could they have ventured farther into sea out of necessity and to find food? The Aquatic Ape Theory makes it possible to believe that while we evolved into terrestrial humans, our aquatic relatives turned into something strangely similar to the fabled mermaid. As evidence that humans once evolved into aquatic creatures, the Aquatic Ape Theory cites some of the striking differences between man and other primates and the many features we share with marine mammals, including the following.


  • Webbing between fingers (other primates don’t have this)
  • Subcutaneous fat (insulating from cold water)
  • Control over breath (humans can hold breath up to 20 minutes, longer than any other terrestrial animal)
  • Loss of body hair (hair creates drag in water)
  • Instinctive ability to swim (human babies are able to do this)
  • A highly developed brain, which depends on nutrients provided by seafood
  • MERMAIDS: THE BODY FOUND makes a strong case for the existence of the mermaid, a creature with a surprisingly human evolutionary history, whose ancestral branch splits off from a shared human root. The film is science fiction, using science as a springboard into imagination and centering the story on the following real-world events:

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Preview clips:


Mermaids: World Premiere


Body Found on Beach | Mermaids


Here's the full press release from Discovery.com:

PREMIERES SUNDAY, MAY 27, FROM 9-11PM E/P ONLY ON ANIMAL PLANET
Part of Animal Planet’s MONSTER WEEK | May 21-28
Editor's Note: This two-hour special is science fiction based on some real events and scientific theory.

ANIMAL PLANET’S MERMAIDS: THE BODY FOUND PAINTS A WILDLY CONVINCING PICTURE OF THE EXISTENCE OF MERMAIDS, WHAT THEY MAY LOOK LIKE AND WHY THEY’VE STAYED HIDDEN…UNTIL NOW

Two-hour CGI Special Unravels Mysterious Underwater Sound Recordings, Dives Deep into the Aquatic Ape Theory and Questions if Mermaids are Related to People

MERMAIDS: THE BODY FOUND is the Culmination of Animal Planet’s First-Ever MONSTER WEEK, Airing May 21-28

Once upon a time, there lived a little mermaid in an underwater kingdom. She ventured to surface, longing to communicate with people on land…

This is a fairytale told and retold to children everywhere; it’s a beloved story about a legendary creature that’s described in the mythologies of nearly every human culture in history. People across all continents who’ve had no communications with other societies have described the same half-man, half-fish anomaly – they’ve spoken about the same mythic animal.

What if there’s a kernel of truth that lives beneath the legend of the mythic mermaid? Now, in MERMAIDS: THE BODY FOUND, premiering Sunday, May 27, from 9-11 PM ET/PT, Animal Planet brings viewers into the world where the legend is real. The film blends real-life events and phenomena with the story of two scientists who testify they found the remains of a never-before-identified sea creature. Spectacular CGI animates a world where mermaids really do swim below the water’s surface, cooperatively hunt with dolphins and may continue to survive in an intricate society where they stay hidden in fear of their Earth-bound relatives.

As the crescendo to MONSTER WEEK, a weeklong network programming stunt airing from May 21 to May 28, MERMAIDS: THE BODY FOUND is a story about evolutionary possibility grounded in a radical scientific theory – the Aquatic Ape Theory, which claims that humans had an aquatic stage in our evolutionary past. While coastal flooding millions of years ago turned some of our ancestors inland, is it possible that one group of our ancestors didn’t retreat from water but rather went in deeper? Could they have ventured farther into sea out of necessity and to find food? The Aquatic Ape Theory makes it possible to believe that while we evolved into terrestrial humans, our aquatic relatives turned into something strangely similar to the fabled mermaid. As evidence that humans once evolved into aquatic creatures, the Aquatic Ape Theory cites some of the striking differences between man and other primates and the many features we share with marine mammals, including the following:


  • Webbing between fingers (other primates don’t have this)
  • Subcutaneous fat (insulating from cold water)
  • Control over breath (humans can hold breath up to 20 minutes, longer than any other terrestrial animal)
  • Loss of body hair (hair creates drag in water)
  • Instinctive ability to swim (human babies are able to do this)
  • A highly developed brain, which depends on nutrients provided by seafood
  • MERMAIDS: THE BODY FOUND makes a strong case for the existence of the mermaid, a creature with a surprisingly human evolutionary history, whose ancestral branch splits off from a shared human root. The film is science fiction, using science as a springboard into imagination and centering the story on the following real-world events:


In the early 1990s, the US Navy began a series of covert sonar tests, which were linked to mass die-offs of whales, which washed up on beaches throughout the world. For years, the Navy denied they were responsible for these beachings.

In 1997, scientists at the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) recorded a mysterious sound (called “The Bloop”) in the deep Pacific, which was thought to be organic in nature. It has never been identified.

These are facts.

MERMAIDS: THE BODY FOUND is a story that imagines how these real-world phenomena may be related. In this story, startling amateur video and photographic evidence, as well as additional audio recordings, suggests whales weren’t the only creatures affected by the Navy’s sonar. The film follows the two scientists who tracked the whale beachings for years and delivers first-hand, on-camera accounts of what they claim to have discovered in the aftermath of one particular beaching. Their story is nothing less than fantastical: they claim to have found the remains of a mermaid.

With compiled amateur footage, including photos and video shot by deep-sea fishermen that never have been shown in the US, as well as cinema-quality CGI, MERMAIDS: THE BODY FOUND argues how a mythical creature – one of humankind’s most enduring legends – may be real. It depicts how mermaids may have evolved from the early human family tree and persisted into the present day.

MERMAIDS: THE BODY FOUND is so compelling with evidence and so credible, audiences can see it a second time when it repeats Monday, May 28, from 7-9 PM ET/PT as MONSTER WEEK comes to a close.

MERMAIDS: THE BODY FOUND is produced for Animal Planet by Darlow Smithson. Tom Brisley is executive producer for Darlow Smithson. For Animal Planet, Charlie Foley is executive producer, creator and writer. For Animal Planet, Vaibhav Bhatt is co-writer and supervising producer, and Jamie Dugger is producer. Steve Gomez, of Bandito Films, is director of animation.

Comments

  1. I saw the commercial for this and was really intrigued, but I'm also confused. If mermaids evolved from humans, how does that explain webbing between or fingers, loss of hair, or breath holding ability? It seems like that would argue the case that humans evolved from mermaids. Unless there was interbreeding between early humans and mermaids? I guess I'll have to watch the show and see.

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    1. I think they are saying all humans started to adapt aquatic features, then some humans went all the way and became mer-people and some stayed on land and became us.

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    2. I think they're saying we started out somewhat aquatic (Mermaid'ish but not all the way), which makes no sense to me. One would think you'd be either all in i.e. aquatic or terrestrial to land, not somewhere in between. Then most of us decided to inhabit land totally and started losing our aquatic features and another group went for the water and evolved even further aquatic features I.e. full mermaids.

      Just the way I read it anyway and if that's correctly interpreted it makes no sense to me evolutionary speaking.

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    3. You can be semi-aquatic. Look at alligators. They are considered semi-aquatic. looking at evolution it is a slow process in a geological sense. So it is possible that hominids were coastal animals and evolved to have semi-aquatic characteristics. It is also stated in the hypothesis that they did not evolve from us nor did we evolve from them. They could be the missing link. we just diverged along the path of the evolutionary tree. Read about evolution again before you make a wrong assumption about it. Just remember Orca's evolved from a dog like animal.

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    4. Hippos are descended from terrestrial animals that became semi-aquatic. Elephants are descended from terrestrial animals that became semi-aquatic then returned to a fully terrestrial existence. The aquatic ape theory is that humans followed a similar path: we are descended from apes that became semi-aquatic in the thousands of lakes that then covered North Africa (where many pre-human fossils have ben found) and like hippos and elephants (and unlike other apes), lost our body hair, developed breath control, etc. When the lakes dried up, we returned to a mostly full-time terrestrial existence. The "theory" here is that others remained in the sea and further developed aquatic traits--much like some small herbivore became whales and a small doglike animal became seals (all of which there is great fossil evidence). Don't take it too seriously, just enjoy it as science fiction.

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  2. In the commercial they showed "mermaid body parts" on a table, which made me do a Google search for such a thing. Admittedly, these don't look like reliable sources, but it's interesting.

    http://www.panama-guide.com/article.php/20080428112124185
    http://www.insomniacdiaries.com/2008/07/real-mermaid-found-after-2004-tsunami.html
    http://www.scaryforkids.com/scary-mermaids/
    http://urbanlegends.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi=1/XJ&zTi=1&sdn=urbanlegends&cdn=newsissues&tm=7&f=00&su=p284.13.342.ip_p504.6.342.ip_&tt=29&bt=0&bts=0&zu=http%3A//www.furinkan.com/mermaid/culture/references/mermaids.html

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    1. There would be no place for a Merman to tuck his fruitbasket. So I would say no.

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  4. This is literally the dumbest thing I've yet seen on this site. And believe me, that is saying something.

    Where in the fossil record would this aquatic period lie? What about all of the evidence for tons of other aquatic life in the fossil record yet none for this extended period?

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    1. Dumbass..it's a fictional what if. Why do you have to be so anal along with the other trolls that lash out whenever something is posted on here?

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    2. Bill, anon 7:25 is a simpleton JREF footer. What they consider a victory at debunking something; us normal, well adjusted people consider the same as just regular common sense.

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    3. Both of you are profoundly retarded,vacant glassy eyed- slack jawed imbeciles. You are excellent examples of the toll poor education has taken on this nation and neither of you will ever make a contribution to the species greater than you body fluids. You are a sure sign the species is in decline. Your parents should be embarrassed if not downright repentant. Some totality of your deepest thoughts would fit in the ear of a flea with room left over. So keep consuming and expelling since that is doubtless the best you will ever amount to.

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    4. Anon 10:06..Are you drunk ?

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  5. No matter it will be better than finding bigfoot.J.D.

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  6. Didn't this exact same show air on Discovery Channel like a year ago?

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  7. The fact that it's on this site is dumb, but not as dumb as the fact that it's is a real show.

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  8. I HOPE THE MERMAIDS HAVE BIG BOOBS !
    Blondie

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    1. Scales or hairy boobs, that's the question.

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    2. Probably none or least small like a cat for example. No Darryl Hannah. That makes me sad.

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  9. So I wonder. If fire works attract a bigfoot. What would you do to attract a mermaid, depth charge the area? J.D.

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    1. You can also put a dolphin in a cage, that brings em in.

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    2. Only if you're in West-by-God-Virginia.

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    3. That makes no sense Anon 10:57.

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    4. He was eluding to the possibility of merpeople dolphin bestiality I think?

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  10. Goes to show how popular bigfoot is; even mermaids are ape related. Next up "The Ghost of Sasquatch"

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    1. maybe the mermaids can hook up with a sasquatch! no wonder we get no respect.

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    2. Oh no, more hybrids! ...I've read comments from people who think FB puts bigfooting in a less than favorable light, they must hate shit like this.

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  11. Hey is that the Hovey hoax photo costume on those pre humans LOL.

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    1. Lol, yes! The Hovey photo is an out-take from the scene where a pre-human takes a long last look at flowers before heading out to sea. Very moving.

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  12. mmmmmmh

    Mermaid and Chips

    Yum!!

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  13. Every myth is based in some kind of truth, as well as mermaids. Ancient cultures have been drawing human fish-like creatures for centuries. So all of you rambling on about how stupid this is, you all seem stupid and uneducated to everyone who reads this. I couldn't even get through the the first page. Go read a book or go to the library for a change. You might find some very interesting things in there...

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  14. That Mermaid episode was BY FAR the absolute WORST FAKE documentary to ever be produced. At no point was anything about it captivating or interesting. Terrible, just terrible.

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  15. What they don't tell you in this documentary is that these mermaids are actually lifeforms artificially created by the CIA and the Men in Black. They used the genes of Big Foot, the Loch Ness monster, and a vampire. Their purpose was to form the perfect soldier.

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  16. lol. i like your post Anon 7:41

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  17. Ok so as said by somebody else here myth is usually based on something real. PLus everybodys forgetting the point of the documentary! Its supposed to be a what if movie based on afew true things like the aquatic ape theory. I dont get why evrybody cant just read! The show even said that most of it was made to get youre mind thinking about the possiblilty! NOT the definitive proof. Personally i really hope things like spears found in fish or strange bodies washing up do happen it would be REALLY cool.

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