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

Easter Island's iconic moai statues have long puzzled the world, but new research hints at a surprising twist in their ...

State-of-the-art computer modeling shows the iconic monuments arose from numerous teams from different clans working ...

Scientists still don’t fully understand why women live longer than men. The aging process differs between the sexes, and in ...

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

When Polynesian explorers landed on Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, around 1200 C.E., they found nearly 20 million palm trees; by the time Dutch explorers arrived in 1722, they found only ...

How Easter Island’s moai statues made it from the quarry to their final destinations has been a mystery for centuries. Archaeologists who analyzed the physics of the statues and their transport found ...

Analysis of ancient DNA has provided more evidence to upend the long-standing theory that Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, experienced a "self-inflicted population collapse." For years, scholars believed ...

For many years, people have wondered how the giant stone statues on Easter Island were moved. These statues, famous for their giant heads and serious faces are called Moai (pronounced mo-eye), and can ...

The "walking moai hypothesis" could end a long-time debate over how ancient engineers moved these iconic statues around Easter Island. Reading time 3 minutes The moai statues of Easter Island have ...

DNA evidence from a screwdriver and a towel that was wrapped around a discarded firearm matches the man charged with killing conservative influencer Charlie Kirk, according to Erica Knight, ...