Easter Island is home to more than 900 giant Moai, with more still being discovered. The statues average about twice the ...

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

Tiny minerals are revolutionizing our understanding of geology. Easter Island consists of several extinct volcanoes. The ...

Hey Hunters, So excited to share a clip of the Movie I had the pleasure to work on. Here we go into the history Easter Island and highlight some of the problems with the current story.

Mayor of Easter Island Pedro Edmunds told local media: "The damage caused by the fire can't be undone" A fire has damaged the enigmatic statues on Easter Island, with some of the charring said to ...

This story appears in the July 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. On a winter night last June, José Antonio Tuki, a 30-year-old artist on Easter Island, did one of the things he loves ...

Now, a study by geologists from Cuba, Colombia, and the Netherlands is challenging that long-held view. Easter Island, known for its extinct volcanoes, was formed around 2.5 million years ago. In 2019 ...

A "ring of fire" shines over Easter Island in a spectacular new image of the annular solar eclipse on Oct. 2. A "ring of fire" shines over Easter Island in a spectacular new image of the annular ...

Ever since 1722, when Captain Jacob Roggeveen, a Dutchman and the first European known to have reached Easter Island arrived, scholars have debated the origins of the isolated population he found ...

Researchers on Easter Island have found a previously undiscovered moai - one of the Pacific island's distinctive stone statues. It was found in a dried-out lake bed around the Rano Raraku volcano ...

HANGA ROA, Easter Island, Oct 16 (Reuters) - Easter Island, the tiny remote speck of land in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, is stuck in an oceanic vortex of plastic. According to municipal data ...