Although rapamycin eventually became a billion-dollar drug, many of the people instrumental to its discovery—most importantly, the people of Rapa Nui—have been largely forgotten in both a monetary and ...

Based on 3D modeling and testing on a moai replica, researchers think that small groups of people may have used ropes to ...

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

Simple physics may explain how the Easter Island statues could "walk" miles with only a handful of people, but the debate over their transport is far from over.

The ancient moai statues of Easter Island may have been “walked” to their resting places, according to a new study.

EASTER ISLAND (WKRC) - Researchers now claim to have solved the enigma of how these statues were transported, they "walked." Although they appear to be just heads, many have full bodies buried by ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Easter Island is named for the Sunday in 1722 when Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen landed his crew on the distant Pacific island. It’s been misunderstood by outsiders ever since. In recent decades, ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Some of the world’s greatest breakthroughs are found in the most unlikely places, including the soil of Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island.