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**.US government denies mermaids exist after documentary mix-up
There is currently no proof to support the existence of mermaids, the US government has surprisingly announced. **
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The National Ocean Service (NOC), a scientific agency of the US Commerce Department, made the strange declaration this week after receiving several inquiries from members of the public.
It follows the airing of a programme on the Discovery Channel entitled: Mermaids: The Body Found, which several members of the public confused for a real-life documentary.
The Discovery Channel admitted that some viewers mistook the programme for a science education show after it was accused of creating a ‘wildly convincing picture of the existence of mermaids’.
To clear up the matter, the NOC decided to publish an article on the Ocean Facts section of its website simply entitled: ‘Are mermaids real?’
The article continued: 'No evidence of aquatic humanoids has ever been found.
‘Why, then, do they occupy the collective unconscious of nearly all seafaring peoples? That’s a question best left to historians, philosophers, and anthropologists.’
The NOC also confirmed the article was written using publicly available sources, as it ‘does not have a mermaid science programme’, according to the BBC.
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