Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, never experienced a ruinous population collapse, according to an analysis of ancient DNA from 15 former inhabitants of the remote island in the Pacific Ocean.

commonly known as Easter Island, never experienced a "self-inflicted population collapse," a new analysis of ancient DNA ...

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

Indeed, in 1994, DNA from 12 Easter Island skeletons was found to be Polynesian. According to an Easter Island legend, some 1,500 years ago a Polynesian chief named Hotu Matu'a ("The Great Parent ...

A mysterious find on Easter Island, investigated by a team of geologists, suggests that the Earth's mantle seems to behave differently than once thought. Geography textbooks describe the Earth's ...

A mysterious find on Easter Island, investigated by Cuban, Colombian and Utrecht geologists among others, suggests that the Earth's mantle seems to behave quite differently. Easter Island consists ...

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 ...