Learn more about early marine animal witness accounts that likely fed mermaid and other sea monster legends.

The ocean's largest herbivore, sirenians are also notable as the creatures that have long fueled mermaid myths and legend across cultures. Below we take a look at some of the most fascinating fables.

Although mermaids now rule as the more popular of the two, merpeople's predominance began with mermen. The Bayblonians had their fish-god Oannes dating back to 5000 B.C.E., while the Philisteines, ...

The Santa Barbara Maritime Museum will reopen its exhibit Mermaids: Visualizing the Myths and Legends through Photography, 16 images printed on canvas by Ralph Clevenger and friends, Nov. 11-April ...

Yes, mermaids are mythological creatures, but their African origins are real according to Jalondra Davis, an assistant professor of English at the University of California, Riverside.

This legend from Staithes, in North Yorkshire, tells of two mermaids who were washed up on the seaside village's beach after a storm, only to be incarcerated, mocked and even stoned by locals.

Just two years after being declared extinct, the dugong has been sighted again in the South China Sea, a sign of progress in ...

It’s so interesting, you can find myths about mermaids all over the world, all around the world. I recently got told that Japanese [legends say that] if you eat a mermaid you could get eternal life.

In the fictional town of Bristol Cove, Wa., mermaids are the mascots. Local legend has it that the fishing town's founder fell in love with a mermaid, and now the residents celebrate the ...

The hot new SBS drama “ The Legend of the Blue Sea,” starring Lee Min Ho and Jun Ji Hyun, is garnering a lot of interest – and also a lot of questions about Jun Ji Hyun’s mermaid character.