Explore the world of Taiwanese and South-east Asian folktales of metamorphosis in the play Tall Tales: Bananas & Ang Ku Kuehs ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researcher Maxime Aubert examines an ancient cave painting in a limestone cave called Liang Metanduno on Muna, a small satellite ...

Jan 21 (Reuters) - The painted outline of a human hand inside a cave on the Indonesian island of Muna represents what researchers are calling the oldest example of rock art in the world, created at ...

The origins and current genetic relationships of Pacific Islanders have generated interest and controversy for many decades. Now, a new comprehensive genetic study of almost 1,000 individuals has ...

In the 17th and 18th centuries, navigators exploring the Pacific and Indian oceans discovered that the languages spoken on many islands, spanning from Madagascar in the west to Polynesia in the east, ...

Austronesian peoples' millennia-long odyssey over high waves is probably one of the earliest and largest maritime migrations in human history. Chinese archaeologists' research in recent years now ...

Oceania was the last region to be settled by humans and the last part of Oceania to be settled by humans was Polynesia. Polynesians are famous for their voyages to remote islands in distant parts of ...

Evolutionary biology is a subdiscipline of the biological sciences concerned with the origin of life and the diversification and adaptation of life forms over time. A distinctive population with high ...

Population genomic data from five species of brood parasitic birds, representing three independent origins of the trait, enabled the identification of shared signatures of natural selection reflecting ...