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The Real Culprit Behind Easter Island’s Lost Forest Isn't Humans — It's Millions of Hungry Rats
Learn how rats, originally brought over to Easter Island as a food source, are partially to blame for the destruction of palm ...
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A new Easter Island find could rewrite history
In a surprising turn of events, a new moai statue has been discovered on Easter Island in 2025, challenging previous ...
A new paper advances the decades-long argument regarding whether rats were the driving force that deforested Rapa Nui, aka ...
New research shows how people, palms, and millions of rats shaped Easter Island long before Europeans arrived.
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Scientists Found an Unlikely Culprit Driving Catastrophic Deforestation in Chile's Easter Islands
The deforestation of Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, has been a subject of intrigue and mystery among scientists.
University of Arizona anthropologist Terry L. Hunt and Lipo explore the complex situation in "Reassessing the role of ...
“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 ...
Musician Lee Vasey has trimmed a trio of trees into a striking family, with similarities to the Chilean Easter Island heads.
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