Attention all wannabe sea creatures: you can buy a mermaid tail on the internet now, and it's nothing like the little kid costumes you're picturing in your head. No, no, these babies are authentic.

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AUSTIN — A shimmering, blue and purple tail can sometimes be spotted rippling in bodies of water in and around Austin. That’s Mermaid Luna Belle. But out of the water, her name is Hope McAlister, 25, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jack Laflin likes to recall the time he wriggled into a 9-foot-long, 30-pound blue mermaid tail. He’d spotted similar pieces ...