Shimmer 'n Splash Mermaid makes a splash with tons of fun in and out of the water! Just pull down her skirt and transform her from a baby into a mermaid with a shimmery, dazzling tail. Now kids are ready to splish, splash and play all day. When she's out of the water, kids can care for baby by giving her a bottle.

Rainbow fins, pink-streaked hair and a royal headband complete Barbie® doll's colorful mermaid look. Perfect for bath time or water play (parental supervision required), Barbie™ Dreamtopia Twinkle Lights Mermaid™ Doll makes a great gift for kids ages 3 to 7 years old. Doll cannot swim or stand alone.

Once again, assuming mermaids reproduce the way fish do, mermaid babies would be born by hatching from eggs. Though it is possible for mermaids to get pregnant and give live birth like dolphins.

Perfect for bath time or water play (parental supervision required), Barbie™ Dreamtopia Twinkle Lights Mermaid™ Doll makes a great gift for kids ages 3 to 7 years old. Doll cannot swim or stand alone. Colors and decorations may vary.

All Mattel Barbie dolls are essentially waterproof. Water will not damage the body, painting, or clothing. However, everything will be wet and will need to dry. This is important to preserve the interior metal parts (if there are any).

Mermaid syndrome, or sirenomelia, is a set of genetic abnormalities that cause a baby to be born with fused limbs, which may resemble a mermaid's tail. The condition is very rare, with only 300 reports of this condition occurring in the world and is often fatal.

The Little Mermaid, longing for the prince and an eternal soul, visits the Sea Witch who lives in a dangerous part of the ocean. The witch willingly helps her by selling her a potion that gives her legs in exchange for her voice (her tongue), as the Little Mermaid has the most enchanting voice in the entire world.

All Mattel Barbie dolls are essentially waterproof. Water will not damage the body, painting, or clothing. However, everything will be wet and will need to dry. This is important to preserve the interior metal parts (if there are any).

"What we can learn from Barbie is that you can do whatever you want and say you're Barbie," Welch told E! News in an exclusive interview. "That's the whole point of it: You don't have to wear pink. You can just say, 'This Barbie likes jeans and Birkenstocks,' and then you are the 'Jean and Birkenstock Barbie.

Often reduced to mer-girl meets boy, queerness is actually an integral part of The Little Mermaid's story and has been since 1837. For the preponderance of the history of pop culture, there has been a dearth of queer stories.

King Triton King Triton. King Triton is the ruler of Atlantica who has white hair, a white beard, and a white mustache (in the prologue of prequel film he has auburn brown), husband of Queen Athena, the father of Ariel and her sisters and grandfather of Melody.

In Andersen's story, the mermaid is motivated by her desire for an immortal soul, not a desire for love and life on land. When the mermaid saves a drowning human prince, she learns that the love of a human might allow her an immortal soul. The mermaid decides to venture onto land, but her legs come at a price.