A quick thinking professional mermaid was seconds from disaster after her tail became stuck at the bottom of a massive aquarium tank in a South Africa shopping mall on Saturday.

A “mermaid” nearly drowned in an aquarium after her tail got stuck on some coral. The incident, which happened on Nov 25 at the Randburg Shopping Mall in South Africa, was captured on video ...

Stories about mermaids aren't exclusive to Western fairytales. Long before Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid" was published in 1837, there were Black mermaids in West African folklore.

A common motif of mermaid legends is that enslaved people who went overboard transformed into water creatures along with their descendants. In African cosmologies, “people who were lost to the ...

Ariel the Little Mermaid is part of your … historically inaccurate … world. “The Little Mermaid” is being criticized by a prominent diversity advocate for its erasure of slavery in the ...

“Be careful of the water,” my mother would say to me every time we were close to a river, a subtle warning to watch out for the mermaids lurking below. The sentiment “be careful of the water ...

South Africa's first Black female free-diving instructor Zandi, aka "The Black Mermaid," is making sure kids worldwide can discover the wonders of the sea with her new children's book ...

Returning on Discovery Channel Africa (DStv channel 121), the programme promises more groundbreaking findings, exciting interactions, and a focus on shark experts in South Africa. ZANDILE Ndhlovu ...

The woman, a professional mermaid from South Africa, had seconds to react with her quick thinking saving her from a potentially deadly and tragic situation. The terrifying moment unfolded inside ...