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A of the U.S. government has Americans that mermaids do not . The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA) released a statement on its to say that: "No evidence of aquatic humanoids has ever been ." It made the because of a TV programme that made people believe mermaids were for . The agency received many questions TV who watched an Animal Planet show called “Mermaids: The Body Found”. The show was a , but people believed it.

Discovery News reported the Animal Planet programme, which they a "documentary-style" show. They : "Though the filmmakers [accepted] that the film is science , for many people it was indeed 'wildly convincing.' The show was [a]… of...computer animation, historical …and faked footage” to make it like mermaids do exist. The NOAA said: “The in mermaids may have arisen at the very of our species…30,000 years .”