A new statue suddenly appeared on Easter Island, which doesn't make sense. Scientists thought they had found them all.

The Schmidt Ocean Institute's ship was equipped with the ROV SuBastian, a deep-sea remotely operated vehicle used to explore ...

The Moai of Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, have stood for more than 500 years. Now, storm surges and erosion put them at risk of falling into the sea.

Easter Island is known for its Moai statues, but for nearly two decades the people who built them were thought to have ...

TONGARIKI, EASTER ISLAND — The hour of 7 a.m. is still nasty rumour. To the east, in a distant sky, the sun is rising over a deserted Pacific Ocean.

A new study suggests that the island of Rapa Nui, otherwise known as Easter Island, didn’t develop in the extreme manner of isolation that we thought.

Scientists on Easter Island say they have uncovered another of its iconic moai head statues after a lake in an extinct volcano dried up. The monolithic head carving was found on its side submerged ...

Easter Island is on lots of bucket lists. Who wouldn’t want the chance to visit one of the world’s most remote islands and take selfies with those ancient, stoic stone faces? Yet there’s ...

The truth about Easter Island: A sustainable society has been falsely blamed for its own demise Recent archaeological evidence shows the remote islanders didn't commit ‘ecocide’ after all ...

"Easter Island had been an object of fascination for a long, long time. Explorers had gone there, anthropologists had gone there, but tourists couldn't get there," historian Jacalyn Duffin told ...

Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, is one of the most remote places in the world. Sarah Ferguson, a 36-year-old South African swimmer, just became the first person to swim around the island.

Easter Island is a remote volcanic island in Polynesia that is a territory of Chile and known worldwide for its colossal statues — more than 800 — that were created by early inhabitants during ...