New data challenges the conventional narrative that humans were the main cause of deforestation on this remote Pacific ...

A traditional dance group from Rapa Nui (or Easter Island) performed a ceremony at the British Museum in London in front of one of the giant, iconic statues from their island that has been part of the ...

Have you ever thought a place could be completely explored and understood, only to have a secret pop up out of nowhere?

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

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 ...

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

Scientists have found a previously undiscovered moai, monolithic human figures carved by the Rapa Nui people on Easter Island, in a dry lake bed on the tiny island in the middle of the Pacific.

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A fire that ripped through part of Chile’s Easter Island this week has caused permanent damage to some of its iconic carved stone figures known as moai, authorities said. The ...

A fire on Easter Island caused severe damage to multiple iconic Easter Island heads, photos show. The fire scorched about 250 acres of Easter Island, also known by its indigenous name Rapa Nui, the ...

Some of the famed stone heads of Easter Island have been damaged in a massive wildfire. “The moai are totally charred,” Ariki Tepano, director of the indigenous Ma’u Henua community, said on social ...

A new moai has been discovered on the remote inhabited volcanic Easter Island situated in Polynesia. Earlier this week, a new moai statue was found in a dry lake bed on the island, according to ...

Nearly 1,000 mysterious, monolithic moai statues have been drawing visitors to Easter Island—a 63-square-mile speck in the ocean, 2,100 miles from continental Chile—for more than a century. Whether ...