Whether you believe in their existence or not, the idea of mermaids has been a staple of seafaring lore for centuries. We watched Tom Hanks fall in love with the mythical creature in "Splash" and sang ...

Every mythical creature has its moment to shine. A few years ago, it was small, bald gremlin guys (Dobby in “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” and Gollum in “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy).

Anglers are famous for telling tall tales about huge fish and the one that got away. In common culture, the term "fish story" is a euphemism for exaggeration or down-right lying. But our fish stories ...

The Little Mermaid lived under the sea, but she wouldn’t dare go into the Hudson. A captain of a steamship traveling along the great river falls in love with the body of water’s most elusive resident ...

Mermaids are multicultural mythical figures, reflecting the continuing human fascination with the sea in stories echoing thousands of years into the past. Mermaids are found in cultures across the ...

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 ...

Every family has a storyteller — that parent, uncle, or auntie that tells fantastical tales as real life adventures. (My own grandmother told me tales of seeing the devil on the beach in Sicily and ...