Mermaids are usually the stuff of legends, but at the Newport-Mesa Family YMCA, a popular water aerobics class transforming area residents into mermaids and mermen on a daily basis is always happy to ...

When Pat Sanders invited classmates from the Newport-Mesa Family YMCA to lunch about 10 years ago, she had no idea she was laying the groundwork for a support network that would carry dozens of ...

DULUTH, Minn. - The fish-shaped woman propelled herself from end to end of the swimming pool with the help of a purple-tinted monofin. She paused mid-pool to flip head over tail. By land she's Jessica ...

The fish-shaped woman propelled herself from end to end of the swimming pool with the help of a purple-tinted monofin. She paused mid-pool to flip head over tail. By land she's Jessica Benson, a ...

While it would make a great fairytale ending for the spike in interest in swimming and pool-related products to be solely the result of the popularity of Disney’s aquatic princess, many think the ...

A little more than a century ago, the new swimming pool at Roosevelt Park was overrun by mermaids. Granted, these flappers didn't have fins, but they mesmerized the masses in an Aug. 10, 1924, edition ...

Haley the mermaid performs at Pirate’s Table Calabash Seafood Buffet. In addition to working as a professional performer at the restaurant and children’s events, she makes tails and other mermaid ...

Children who wear mermaid tails and single-fin pool toys are at greater risk of drowning, a new study has found. The popular aquatic products binds a child's legs together and acts as a flipper so ...

I have the adorably awkward coordination of a rom-com character. It was a thought that haunted me as I slithered into my purple mermaid tail for the first time. Yes, we were at the Four Seasons in ...