Real-life mermaids, Sirena, Nixie and Lyla are part of a mermaid pod, which lives in the waters of Mako Island. As young members of the pod, it is their job to protect the Moon Pool and guard it from ...

It would appear that kids around the world can’t get enough of Australian mermaids. Beginning with H2O: Just Add Water and now with Mako Mermaids, Jonathan M. Shiff’s stories of these underwater ...

I had the privilege of watching the Mako mermaids' passionate arguments and teenagerhood mixed with magic as a child. I did not know they lived in Australia—they never mentioned it, and the places ...

In recent years, so-called “mer-culture” has been on the rise. Take, for example, Disney’s 2023 remake of “The Little Mermaid,” the 2023 Netflix documentary “MerPeople” and Fairgrounds St. Pete, an ...