A new paper advances the decades-long argument regarding whether rats were the driving force that deforested Rapa Nui, aka ...

University of Arizona anthropologist Terry L. Hunt and Lipo explore the complex situation in "Reassessing the role of ...

Did you hear about the latest scoop from Easter Island? Apparently, they've stumbled upon something that could totally shake up what we know about history! It's like straight out of an adventure movie ...

Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, located at the south easternmost point of the Polynesian Triangle, is a rather unique place. Officially belonging to the nation of Chile, the island only measures one ...

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 ...

“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 ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Ted Powers, University of California, Davis (THE CONVERSATION) An antibiotic ...