NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. — At the launch party Monday of the Official Mermen of Wickford Calendar, several of the calendar guys turned out in tails. Not tails as in tuxedo tails. Tails as sparkling, ...

Members of the small but growing shoal of mermaids and mermen in Brazil are getting a little worried and irate. Until now, they've been able to slip happily into their brightly colored tails and glide ...

Davi de Oliveira Moreira, known as "Sereio" (merman in Portuguese), poses in costume at Arpoador Rock on Ipanema Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, last May. Members of the small but growing shoal of ...