The two-hour program is fiction, but it's presented in documentary style, with actors playing scientists who claim to have found the body of a mermaid on a Washington state beach.
The channel admits this in a press release about the special, saying "the film is science fiction, using science as a springboard into imagination."
There you go girls I swear the minute that these "scientists" started talking on the video, it screamed fake all over and I closed the tab immediately
This whole time I thought it was real. When it premiered on Animal Planet everyone was talking about it on Twitter. It was trending worldwide. I can't believe it's fake. I do believe in mermaids though.
I swear the minute that these "scientists" started talking on the video, it screamed fake all over and I closed the tab immediately 
