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.

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 ...

As a water taxi rounded a corner at sunset, the village of Torosiaje came into view, with its colorful stilted houses perched ...

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Les Stroud learns the dangerous art of compression diving with the Sea Bajau people. Poverty-stricken, the Bajau have large families. 12+ people share one room stick huts that poke from the ocean ...

As a society known to the world for its extraordinary physical abilities in diving, Bajau residents welcome this holy month with various adjustments. In the village of Sampela, only about 70 percent ...

Stilt houses in the village of the Bajau sea nomads in Pulau Papan in Sulawesi - Copyright AFP Jack MOORE Stilt houses in the village of the Bajau sea nomads in Pulau ...

Research reveals how natural selection shaped the Bajau sea nomads’ spleens to boost oxygen delivery, helping them dive for minutes on a single breath. For more than a thousand years, the Bajau — ...

Malaysian police have been demolishing the offshore homes of a nomadic maritime tribe, with hundreds evicted as part of a crackdown on undocumented migrants. Last month more than 500 Bajau people were ...

A peaceful people, they would simply float away on their houseboats whenever they felt threatened by groups encroaching in their territory. Like most Bajau, Max and his family live almost their entire ...