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

The online model lets researchers and anyone with an internet connection explore areas that the island’s 100,000 annual ...

HANGA ROA, Easter Island – Scientists may have solved the mystery of how the giant statues of Easter Island moved to their present locations. Located in the South Pacific, Easter Island is home to ...

A groundbreaking new study provides compelling evidence that Easter Island's enormous moai statues were built by competing clans rather than an authority ...

Explorers have long known there was more to the 887 statues on Easter Island—some 2,000 miles west of Chile—than just the statue heads made famous in photographs. When most people think of the ...

A first-ever 3D model of the Rano Raraku quarry lets anyone examine Easter Island’s iconic statue workshop in vivid detail.

We’re documenting something that really has needed to be documented, but in a way that’s really comprehensive and shareable.” Lipo is one of the foremost experts on the Easter Island moai. In October, ...

There are more than 1,000 moai statues on Easter Island, representing a key part of the region’s cultural and archeological past. A new moai, smaller than most, was found in a dried-up lakebed. The ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (13 News) - A researcher at the University of Arizona is sharing his research from a place known as Easter ...

Conducting research on the main quarry of Easter Island is challenging in ordinary circumstances. The easternmost Polynesian island is a six-hour flight from the nearest airport and reaching parts of ...

Unless you count the heat, the streets of Tullahoma, Tenn., have very little in common with Easter Island, a tiny spit of land off the coast of Chile. But local artist Steve Smith is doing his part to ...

“Sea level rise is real,” said Noah Paoa, lead author of the study and a doctoral student at the University of Hawaii at Manoa’s School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology. “It’s not a distant ...