The Bajau subsist by gathering shellfish on the sea floor In a striking example of natural selection, the Bajau people of South-East Asia have developed bigger spleens for diving, a study shows.

But a group of people called the Bajau takes free diving to the extreme, staying underwater for as long as 13 minutes at depths of around 200 feet. These nomadic people live in waters winding ...

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 ...

The freediving Bajau people of Southeast Asia, however, are not your average people. Scientists have discovered the group of "sea nomads" may have developed genetic adaptations that allow them to ...

Extreme, yes, but that’s how a group of human sea nomads—the Bajau people—have survived for thousands of years. The indigenous group lives throughout the islands of Indonesia, Malaysia ...

First published in 2018 in the research journal Cell, a group of scientists highlighted the indigenous Bajau people (“Sea Nomads”) of Southeast Asia who live a subsistence lifestyle based on ...

A genetic abnormality known as the "sea nomad gene" allows an amazing tribe of fish people known as Bajau to hold their breath underwater for 10 minutes in order to spear meals. Larger spleens ...

More than 500 people from the Bajau Laut, a mostly stateless sea-faring community who live on rickety houseboats or coastal huts built on stilts, saw their homes demolished or burned by ...