From high-altitude climbers to divers who can fish without scuba gear, scientists are finding new ways that human bodies may ...

(CNN) — An island 50 miles (80 kilometers) off the southern tip of the Korean Peninsula is home to a unique and celebrated community of women: the Haenyeo. These women dive year-round off Jeju ...

A new analysis of a group of all-women extreme divers off the coast of Korea has uncovered genetic differences that could ...

The ama laugh at its unrealistic portrayal. We hear how, as young girls, these women started diving without oxygen tanks and wetsuits, collecting abalone and shellfish. Now fourth-generation ama ...

“They now wear wetsuits, but up until the 1980s they were diving in these cotton bodysuits,” says Melissa Ilardo, geneticist at the University of Utah, who has been working with these wome ...