There's a new boss in charge at the Discovery Network, and he's anxious to get rid of mega-sharks, mermaids and man-eating snakes. Rich Ross, a longtime Disney executive who began this week as ...

Swimming along with the underwater creatures in Discovery World’s Reiman Aquarium, you may see an unusual sight: a person with lavender hair, covered in blue and purple scales and sporting a ...

Discovery Communications has promoted the guy behind Animal Planet’s controversial mermaid documentaries to oversee a newly created Original Content Group for the whole company of networks. As EVP, ...

I caught an incredibly bad two-hour “documentary” on the Discovery Channel last night that, in a nut shell, encapsulates many of our societal foibles. That program was “Mermaids: The Body Found.” ...

Mermaids are renowned for their elusive and magical nature and the HM colonial schooner Mermaid was no different: the ship was found by a team of maritime archaeologists just days ago, after being ...

There were many who said this day would never come -- Discovery Channel is finally moving away from creating fake Mermaid documentaries and trying to film men eaten alive by anacondas. Why exactly is ...

On the Discovery Channel's two-hour special Mermaids: The Body Found, a young man appears to stumble upon a mermaid corpse on the beach. (The documentary-style program premiered in Australia in 2011 ...

Marine archaeologists yesterday confirmed they had located the wreck of HM Colonial Schooner Mermaid in waters off Cairns in far north Queensland. The Australian National Maritime Museum ...

Researchers are closer to solving an Australian maritime mystery. A team made up of 40 archaeologists, scientists and volunteers has confirmed a shipwreck found on the Great Barrier Reef is that of ...