What is cause for the extention of the mermaid species?

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Answer 1

I agree with Rotter. Though the pollution hasn't helped. I remember an old Blue Peter episode telling us about how they were also strangled by those plastic six pack lager (some filthy brew the lower orders drink for survival) holder majiggys.

They did a graphic reenactment and everything.

Answer 2

Oh, we're hardly extinct. We've been forced into hiding by the likes of Rotter and other randy old men. But you shouldn't worry about us, darling, as we've found the most splendid Edenic hideaway here. It even has internet.

Answer 3

God loves Mermaids, and so do I.

Answer 4

Honey, if you can, visit Florida, they have mermaids (manatees). I love them.

Answer 5

Many scientists thought they were extinct, and still do.  The reason for that, is because the mermaids moved their town further south because to many people knew where they lived and they felt endangered.

Answer 6

the mermaids are happily living in neverland with peter pan.

Answer 7

They were never real

Answer 8

Overfishing old boy, although the pond up at Rotter manor is full of the fin tailed beauties. Tip top.

Answer 9

Mermaid:A Family of Short Interspersed Repetitive Elements Widespread in Vertebrates

Nobuyoshi Shimodaa, Mario Chevretteb, Marc Ekkerc, Yutaka Kikuchid, a, Yoshiki Hottae, a and Hitoshi Okamoto d, a, 1

a Division of Cellular Communication, National Institute for Basic Biology, Nishigonaka 38, Myodaiji-cho, Okazaki, Aichi, 444, Japan

b Department of Surgery, Urology Division, McGill University and Montreal General Hospital Research Institute, 1650 Avenue Cedar, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3G 1A4

c Loeb Institute for Medical Research, Ottawa Civic Hospital, University of Ottawa, 725 Parkdale Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1Y 4E9

e Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo, Tokyo, 113, Japan

d Department of Physiology, Keio University, School of Medicine, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku, Tokyo, 160, Japan

Received 1 February 1996.

Available online 22 April 2002.

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Abstract

We have discovered a family of short interspersed repetitive elements (SINEs) that are present in the genomes of fish, amphibian and primates. The family of the SINEs, designatedmermaid,is distinctive in each species except for a conserved region of approximately 80 bp. Some members of themermaidfamily were found in transposon-like repetitive elements, including Tc1-like elements which are also distributed in the genomes of fish and amphibian. This raises the possibility of horizontal transfer of themermaidfamily between vertebrates via transposons.

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Answer 10

your question says "extention" of the mermaid species?  What are you talking about do you mean "extinction"

Mermaids are folklore, not real, like Batman lol  wish I had better things to do than answer dumb *** questions like this but I don't tonight .....

Answer 11

I think the cause of their extinction is the fact that they never actually existed in the first place.

Answer 12

Nice one......maybe they went down with Atlantis.

Mermaids are thought to have been unclear sightings of Dugongs, or Manatee (gregarious sirenians)

Answer 13

s*x starved fishermen

Answer 14

Pollution and over fishing. If they were real then that is the reason.

Answer 15

i'm pretty sure ethel merman had children and they're still alive, so i think you've received some premature reports of their demise.

and look, there's bitsy reporting from the secret mer-kingdom.  love your new picture, bitsy, darling!