For all you know, mermaids produce hundreds or thousands of small eggs, like frogs or fish. The hatched young go through several life cycles, eventually becoming something like their final form.

How do mermaids reproduce?

How do mermaids reproduce? Having the lower anatomy of a fish, it is likely that mermaids reproduce in the same way as fish. ... Fish have similar reproductive organs as humans, except they are not external. The female will lay the eggs and they will be dispersed through the water where the male will fertilize them.

Can a human and a mermaid have a baby?

Q: Can merpeople and humans have babies? Merpeople aren't the same species as humans, but they are in the same genus, like goats and sheep or donkeys and horses. That means they are close enough to humans to interbreed.