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

A new paper advances the decades-long argument regarding whether rats were the driving force that deforested Rapa Nui, aka ...

Conventional wisdom holds that the island of Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, once had a large population that crashed after living beyond its means and stripping the island of resources. A new ...

A new study led by researchers at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory offers the clearest evidence yet that a centuries-long ...

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

Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island (a name given to it by Europeans), is located in the southeast Pacific and is famous for its approximately 1,000 carvings of moai, human-faced statues. The island ...

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

Researchers have found a new moai statue in a dry lake on the Chilean island of Rapa Nui, joining the approximately 1,000 other iconic monolithic sculptures on what is internationally known as Easter ...

The Pacific island of Rapa Nui — also called Easter Island by the Europeans that arrived there on a Sunday in 1722 — is arguably most famous for its iconic human-like volcanic rock statues called moai ...

A newly identified drought on the Pacific island of Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, could have spurred islanders to invest fewer resources in building their legendary stone monuments. But some ...

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