BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) – What’s it like to be a real-life mermaid? One at Blue Zoo in Baton Rouge said it’s peaceful under the water. Blue Zoo is an aquarium inside the Mall of Louisiana.

1:B - As far as we know, mermaids aren’t real, but for a few thousand years, people have told stories of half-human, half-fish creatures. It’s possible they’re based on sea animals such as manatees or ...

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 ...