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Past and present Weeki Wachee mermaids teach the ways of Old Florida sirens. Gabrielle Calise is a culture reporter who covers music, nostalgia and offbeat Florida trends. Reach her at ...

The "Merlympics" are, of course, the Mermaid Olympics, in which swimmers wearing mermaid tails compete in order to bring attention to water and marine conservation issues. A desert mermaid from Utah ...

Fish tails! See mermaid competitors take to the water The China Mermaid Open Championship and the International Mermaid Performance Contest recently took place on the Chinese island of Hainan. See ...

The Mermaid Cave in Thung Nham reveals a mysterious underground world of glittering stalactites, emerald waters, and natural ...

The seafloor is, typically, geologically much younger than the continents that make up Earth’s dry land. New rock is formed at mid-ocean ridges that snake across the Earth’s major oceans. These host ...