Mermaids – underwater creatures that are half fish and half human – do not exist except in people’s imaginations. Scientists who study the ocean for the United States have investigated their possible ...
A trio of mermaids rescued a man from drowning after he lost consciousness towards the end of his scuba dive in California. Pablo Avila, his son and a friend had chosen to scuba dive during a trip to ...
In recent years, so-called “mer-culture” has been on the rise. Take, for example, Disney’s 2023 remake of “The Little Mermaid,” the 2023 Netflix documentary “MerPeople” and Fairgrounds St. Pete, an ...
On Sunday, Animal Planet aired a follow-up to last year's television special called "Mermaid: The Body Found." The two-hour documentary-style program — described by the network as "science fiction ...
Once a mermaid, always a mermaid. A group of women in their 70s recently visited the Florida springs where they once performed as mermaids to see if they still had the magic. OK. A lot of little girls ...
Queer people have existed in folklore throughout history. Realizing that gives us magical powers, Sacha Coward says.
Long before Disney introduced the family-friendly Ariel, mermaids were used in fantasy fiction as a safe representation of female sexuality, apropos for even the most puritanical of societies. But in ...
It took five years to give birth to a mermaid. Charlie Foley, Animal Planet’s senior vice president of development, took half a decade creating, developing, writing and executive producing “Mermaids: ...
Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid is a heartwarming tale of a mermaid falling in love, battling evil to be with her love, and living happily ever after as a human. Just kidding. That’s the ...
Not all mermaids are like Ariel in "The Little Mermaid." Though Disney conditioned us to think that mermaids are bubbly creatures who hardly know what to do with a dinglehopper, some mermaids in ...
On 27 May 2012, Discovery's Animal Planet channel aired a pseudo-documentary entitled Mermaids: The Body Found in the U.S., a purely fictional work dealing with a purported federal coverup of a ...