Mermaids are real and here is the proof.

That's not a mermaid, that's a manatee.

Ok, jokes over. Who put the bikini top on the manatee?

whalemaid.

I think that is a dugong, also known as the sea cow. They have been commonly mistaken for mermaids.

That’s a marmalade.

That's a manatee. Sailors of yesteryear made the same mistake.

I've seen one of those before....