Asexual reproduction. Mermaids leave the egg to be fertilized by a male newt or mermaid. So they incubate the egg until the moment the little mermaid (not the Disney one) comes out.
By collective imagination, and by mythical legends, we wish to believe that mermaids exist or have existed. But, unfortunately, I think that this subject will have to continue forming a part of those perpetual dreams of the human race. We have all dreamed of those mermaids trying to lie to the Argonauts of the Odyssey with their songs and, of course, when we imagine it, cinema and mythology affirm that in these dreams, mermaids are beings of exceptional beauty. . Save defenseless sailors at the last moment to delicately deposit them on the sands of some deserted beach.
Origin and evolution of the myth of mermaids
For a long time, sailors and fishermen made reference to mermaids in their stories. The first written visualizations were made in Assyria around 1000 B.C. According to these records, certain mermaids were affable creatures and gave wishes to the sailors who assisted them.
Other writings have begun to express the fear caused by these creatures and claimed that seeing them meant bad luck. Seeing a mermaid was a sign of a storm or shipwreck. In this way, in certain old maps of seas and oceans, the threat is indicated by the legendary story Hic Sunt Sirenae: a space where mermaids could live.
Playing mermaids as sea creatures
If mermaids exist as true marine creatures then they have to continue a reproductive development similar to that of fish, they may be oviparous, ovoviviparous or mammals.
If they are oviparous, the females have to lay their eggs in the water and then be fertilized by the male.
What is a harpy?
These are also part of the mythology of old Greece, which is represented as a bird, but its face is female. It would seem that they were the ones who had the task of seizing the punishments that emanated from Zeus, where they snatched the food from the hands of Fineo.
In the same way, mermaids and nymphs, it would seem that they had a way of enchanting men, which is by singing until they enchanted, but there are those who deny this, saying that inversely they were laughs, that they became horrifying and intimidated.