For years, researchers have debated how the Indigenous people of Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, managed to move their giant ...

The "walking moai hypothesis" could end a long-time debate over how ancient engineers moved these iconic statues around ...

Simple physics may explain how the Easter Island statues could "walk" miles with only a handful of people, but the debate ...

Easter Island statues, traditionally known as moai on the remote island of Rapa Nui in the South Pacific, are some of the ...

Evidence is now stronger than ever that the mysterious population collapse of Rapa Nui never actually happened. Recent ...

Rapa Nui men prepare their boats on Easter Island, 4,000 Km (2,400 miles) west of Santiago, Chile, in this 2003 archive photo. REUTERS/Carlos Barria * Any views expressed in this opinion piece are ...

Mysterious, statue-laden Rapa Nui, dubbed Easter Island by European colonizers, is not an easy place to thrive. At more than 2,000 miles from the coast of South America, it is one of Earth’s most ...

Concert pianist Mahani Teave has traveled the world, But Rapa Nui, sometimes known as Easter Island, is her home. "Rapa Nui – that's what we call ourselves here also," she said. "That's our people, ...

The voyaging canoe Hokule‘a and its crew marked the return of the vessel to Polynesian waters Saturday with a traditional landing ceremony at Anakena Beach in Rapa Nui. It was the second time the ...

DEERFIELD BEACH (CBSMiami) -- The team behind the Rapa Nui artificial reef installation that flipped over during its sinking on Sunday is "committed to making the site a marine habitat and dive ...

Before the toromiro disappeared from the island, at least two men grabbed seeds from the last remaining plant and brought them home Daniel Lewis The flowers of the toromiro Consultaplantas via ...

"Ogu and Mampato in Rapa Nui" marks a fair start for the fledgling Chilean animation industry. Displaying a bit too much dependence on the Katzenberg style of Disney filmmaking, pic combines the ...