What if someone told you mermaids were real? Forget the fish tails, we mean women capable of holding their breath for minutes on end as they dive under the sea several hundred times a day.
Odysseus and the Sirens, eponymous vase of the Siren Painter, c. 480–470 BC (British Museum). Credit: Jastrow / Public Domain Mermaids, folkloric creatures with the head and upper body of a woman and ...