Researchers have unearthed a new 5-foot-tall moai statue created by Indigenous Rapa Nui people on Easter Island. Volunteers from three Chilean universities made the discovery on Feb. 21 in a dry ...

A new moai, one of Easter Island's iconic statues ... it's a really unique discovery as it's the first time that a Moai has been discovered inside a laguna in a Rano Raraku crater," said the ...

The discovery was made as "GMA" co-anchor Michael Strahan reports from Easter Island next week, exploring the remote inhabited volcanic island's heritage, beauty and the historic colossal stone ...

Jo Anne Van Tilburg, an archeologist and the director of the Easter Island Statue Project ... led to the lake drying up — and the latest discovery. “Right now, the issue is for them to ...

Much of the blame for Easter Island’s enigma surrounding its culture and past lies with the Rano Raraku volcano. Now, for the first time since time immemorial, the lack of rain caused by the ...

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IT’S a sight that has long baffled experts, but new research is finally shedding light on Easter Island’s most perplexing secret. Famously, there are approximately 900 statues, or moai ...

A team of geologists investigated Easter Island’s age by dating zircon minerals, which turned out to highlight ancient ...

The Earth's mantle might not always move along in lockstep with the overlying tectonic crust—as set out in science textbooks for decades—but may instead behave differently. This is the ...

This discovery was made by an international team ... an 1800-mile-long chain of underwater mountains stretching between Easter Island—also known as Rapa Nui—and Chile. Primnoid corals observed ...