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 ...

An estimated 1,000 people in the United States are “professional mermaids” — that is, they don fishtails and fins and get paid to swim in tanks, pools and open water. These mermaids swim even in ...

The Little Mermaid famously sang “flipping your fins, you don’t get too far.” Apparently, she’s never seen Merle Liivand swim. Liivand, also known as “Eco Mermaid,” broke a Guinness World Record in ...

The merfolk are turning heads on a Saturday morning at Lake Las Vegas. There’s usually no swimming here, these waters reserved for boaters and paddle-boarders, not mythical sea creatures in 30-pound ...

In recent years, so-called "mer-culture" has been on the rise. In fact, Dr. Daniel Compora, PhD, a professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Toledo in Toledo, ...