Scientists have described a new bird species found only on the island of Alor in eastern Indonesia. The Alor myzomela is easily distinguished from other known members of the Myzomela genus of ...

Good thing the Abui tribe no longer headhunts. Although on Indonesia’s remote Alor island, a village elder menacingly pointed a rustic bow and arrow at me, his time-etched face stoic and his white ...

The discovery by researchers from The Australian National University (ANU) of three bodies on Indonesia’s Alor Island, dating from 7,500 to 13,000 years ago, sheds new light on burial practices and ...

Off Alor Island in the vast Indonesian archipelago, researchers and conservationists are using tagging technology to track endangered pelagic thresher sharks (Alopias pelagicus), many of which are ...

Researchers have found three bodies on Indonesia's Alor Island, dating from 7,500 to 13,000 years ago, that shed new light on burial practices and migration of the earliest humans in island Southeast ...

There are scores of languages (Alor itself has 19), dialects and customs in these diverse, colorful hinterlands that heavily depend on subsistence fishing and agriculture; however, wherever we ...