Meet the real life Little Mermaids who have made a splash with the latest craze of the Merfolk community and their dedication to the lifestyle is truly off the scale ...

Now a 56-year-old Portland woman is living out this fantasy a little later in life. Pauline Long has taken to her neighborhood swimming pool in a mermaid getup and goes by her mermaid name: Myst.

A picture taken on October 4, 2016, shows three women dressed up as mermaids posing by a pool at a mermaid training school at Dijnselburg swimming pool in Zeist. AFP ZEIST, Netherlands — A ...

They might not look like the Disney character Ariel, but these women are truly real-life mermaids. Known as Haenyeo, the group swim up to 65 feet to the ocean floor and back around 100 times daily.

Pixie Wright, left, Jaclyn Gutierrez and Camber Mauth, members of a pod of real-life mermaids based in Pueblo, perch on the edge of the Colorado State University-Pueblo pool May 1 before a ...

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Mermaid Elle, a.k.a. Elle Jimenez, tells PEOPLE about the highs and lows of working as a professional mermaid Mermaid Elle — a.k.a. Elle Jimenez — opens up to PEOPLE about what it really takes ...