Disney's Little Mermaid Ariel being black makes scientific sense, says experts

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Disney's The Little Mermaid hitting the headlines as some so-called fans unhappy with Ariel being black, a marine biologist has now said that it "makes sense".Disney have cast the role of Ariel as a black woman, while the 1989 animated film depicted the fictional mermaid as a white woman with red hairPlayed by Halle Bailey and with a film trailer released, some fans have been outraged with them taking to Twitter to fume #NotMyAriel.READ NEXT: Disney's The Little Mermaid trailer sees Halle Bailey take on iconic songThe unimpressed people online have been sharing theories online and urging people that Ariel "can't be a black woman", seemingly forgetting that mermaids aren't real and fish can't speak.Karen Osborn, curator of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History spoke to Buzzfeed, where she shut down the theories that the mermaid "can't be black"."As you move through the water column – as you dive deeper and deeper – right at the surface, a lot of things are blue, because you blend in with the sky behind you for predators that are down below looking up," explained Karen."And then you have a bunch of mirrored animals, so they just reflect whatever's around them and that's a good camouflage in shallow water," the marine specialist continued."As you get deeper, you see animals that are pigmented or deep red [because] there's hardly any red light in the deep sea, so being red is effectively being black."Karen explained how in the sea there are lots of "ultra-black fish".Speaking hypothetically, she said that mermaids would likely be "transparent" and if they were, this would mean they "can blend in pretty well".Although there has been an array of #NotMyAriel tweets, with people calling for the character to be.