Attention all wannabe sea creatures: you can buy a mermaid tail on the internet now, and it's nothing like the little kid costumes you're picturing in your head. No, no, these babies are authentic.

Matthew Quijano has been in the mermaid industry for over 10 years. His company, MerrowFins, builds custom mermaid tails for models, hobbyists, performers, music videos, and event companies. Creating ...

The US government has assured us that there is no such thing as a mermaid, but that doesn’t mean you can’t play mermaid or merman at your local pool. These custom ...

Disney’s live action remake of “The Little Mermaid” may have relied heavily on CGI and other technology to turn people into merfolk, but there is a rapidly growing industry to make people’s mermaid ...

Eric Ducharme started Mertailor LLC in 2006, when he was just 16 years old and performing as the prince in Weeki Wachee Springs Little Mermaid show. Now 22, he’s made realistic, hand-painted custom ...

It is summertime and you're at the pool with your family. You can't be more than ten, maybe eleven years old. You've always felt most at home in the water, to a point where you wonder if it's normal.

Back in the day, I mostly associated swimming pools with playing Marco Polo, doing handstands, and, most importantly, pretending to be a mermaid. Nowadays, I mostly associate them with lap swim, which ...