Many have traced the contemporary conception of a mermaid to the ancient Greek figure of the siren, despite the fact that ...

For thousands of years sirens have lured sailors, haunted coastlines—and shapeshifted through myth and media. Here's how they ...

Different cultures have their own stories about the imaginary underwater creatures, with the oldest dating back to ancient ...

But in Freeform’s new series Siren, the sea-dwellers we get are much more intimidating than a Disney character, or even a siren from Greek mythology. These mermaids are fierce, terrifying ...

[This story contains spoilers from the first two episodes of Netflix’s Sirens.] Perhaps the sirens came calling for director Nicole Kassell. Before signing on to direct the first two episodes of ...

Manatees as mermaids? C’mon. But historians, folklorists and scientists say it’s no joke at all. The order Sirenia, to which the Florida manatee belongs, is from the Latin siren, or mermaid.

In ancient Greek mythology, a Siren is a hybrid creature with the body of a bird and the head of a human. Sirens are traditionally understood to be female, but similar figures with beards can be ...