Mermaids have somehow managed to become the ultimate fantasy contradiction: gorgeous enough to inspire poetry, terrifying enough to make sailors question every life choice they ever made. One minute ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In recent years, so-called “mer-culture” has been on the rise. Of course, no discussion of mermaids can be made without ...

Last year, when the pandemic forced people to retreat into their homes, Alyssa Maloof found her photo studio empty. So Maloof, who has a deep interest in fine art, decided to turn her studio into a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The dugong — a marine mammal that purportedly inspired ancient mermaid tales — has been declared “functionally extinct” in China ...

Mermaids have become a cultural phenomenon, and clashes about mermaids and race have spilled out into the open. This is most pointedly apparent in the backlash over Disney’s much-anticipated “The ...