Research reveals how natural selection shaped the Bajau sea nomads’ spleens to boost oxygen delivery, helping them dive for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

It may not be a superpower from a sci-fi show, but the Bajau people of the Philippines, Malaysia, and Indonesia have evolved a genetic ability to use oxygen more efficiently. This makes them excellent ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Rights activists have slammed the displacement of hundreds of sea nomads after their stilt homes in a Malaysian marine park on Borneo island were demolished. But the ...

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Les Stroud lives with the Sea Bajau people who call the waters of Borneo home. Les explores the spiritual, cultural and physical survival of the Bajau. They belong to no country; their allegiance to ...