First, they look at the blonde, blue-eyed, white boy. Then they look at the dark-skinned Indian man he calls his father. Baffled, they turn to the boy's fair-skinned mother, who looks Asian.

An indigenous tribe on an Indonesian island who have uniquely piercing blue eyes due to a genetic fluke have been captured in a stunning set of photographs. The Buton people are from Indonesia's ...

Here, many members of the Buton tribe possess naturally vivid blue eyes that are so intense and bright that they often stop people in their tracks and give a mythical feel. Yet behind these ...