A new study has been conducted on the Bajau people of Malaysia and the Philippines. The small community is known for their underwater abilities to hold their breath for a long amount of time and ...

The Bajau people of Malaysia and the Philippines are renowned for their free-diving abilities, often working eight-hour shifts in search of fish and other sea critters. Underwater sessions can last ...

Imagine spending all your day swimming in the sea, how would you survive? They live in houseboats, moving across the South East Asian waterways from place to place and rarely setting foot on dry land.

Researchers investigate how the Bajau people of southeast Asia — aka "sea nomads" — can spend so much time under water without scuba gear as... Members of the nomadic Bajau people often spend up to ...

The Bajau tribe of Indonesia have become the first known humans to genetically adapt to diving. The tribe live an extremely amphibious life, and have now been proven to possess the genetic makeup to ...

Evidence that humans can genetically adapt to diving has been identified for the first time in a new study. The evidence suggests that the Bajau, a people group indigenous to parts of Indonesia, have ...

The Bajau people of Southeast Asia, known to many as "sea nomads," are renowned for their amazing diving abilities. Some can hold their breath for minutes at a time, plunging dozens of meters below ...

"They are simply a stranger to the land," an anthropologist says of Southeast Asia's Bajau people, and a new study shows their bodies have changed to account for that. The Bajau, who live in Indonesia ...

The Bajau people of Southeast Asia live in houses teetering on stilts above the turquoise waters of the Pacific. These ‘sea nomads’ blur the distinction between species of the land and sea, holding ...

Members of the nomadic Bajau people often spend up to five hours a day underwater. They're hunting for fish, octopus and other seafood. And they don't even use diving gear. New research suggests this ...