A massive feast disappears in record time as the challenge heats up. Scientists may have just solved 900 year old mystery of Easter Island statues Sepang, Kuala Langat battle waist-high floodwaters ...

D mapping reveals Easter Island's iconic statues were built by competing family clans, not centralized rulers.

Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, is often portrayed in popular culture as an enigma. The rationale is clear: The tiny, ...

Scholars have long debated how the massive stone figures of Rapa Nui got to where they stand today. A new study offers one ...

Easter Island — or Rapa Nui in the native language — is known around the world for its massive moai statues. While the ...

New research shows how people, palms, and millions of rats shaped Easter Island long before Europeans arrived.

Learn how rats, originally brought over to Easter Island as a food source, are partially to blame for the destruction of palm ...

University of Arizona anthropologist Terry L. Hunt and Lipo explore the complex situation in "Reassessing the role of ...