Why would merfolk have hair?
A classic image of mermaids are their long flowing hair that swishes in the water. But in the scientifically realistic sense this makes none. The hair would be nothing more than a nuisance to the mermaid getting tangled on rocks and offering handles for potential predators, so why would mermaids evolve hair?
If the merpeople's babies are relatively helpless or start as weak swimmers, head hair could remain as a useful point fo …
8y ago
Though maybe not the best solution, Depending on the environment, the Hair might just not be enough of a menace to be ev …
8y ago
Ask yourself, why do humans have hair? Some ancestor of ours lost most of the hair on its body-- and men sometimes go ba …
8y ago
Other than for hiding,sexual selection ,make the merfolk look bigger or making people think they are humans Filtring …
8y ago
It just looks like hair; those are actually tentacles. Merfolk are not descended from fish or mammals, but are a type of …
8y ago
In a fictional world with merfolk, the hair could not be a part of their body at all, but some kind of algae or other or …
8y ago
Maybe the hair is vestigial? Depending on the evolution of the mermaids it could have served a purpose before.
8y ago
A mermaid that "realistically" evolved would look very different from the traditional mermaid in many ways. But let's as …
8y ago
Long hair is inherited from the common ancestors of humans and merpeople. In-hair-itance As whales evolved from an …
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