While Europeans eventually discovered the impressive moai statues for which the Rapa Nui are best known, they also stumbled ...

Isolated in the Pacific, Easter Island is famed for its towering Moai statues—but the real story lies in the resilience of ...

The online model lets researchers and anyone with an internet connection explore areas that the island’s 100,000 annual ...

For years, the story of Easter Island has been told as a grim fable: a small, isolated community cut down its last tree, ...

Māori rock art is one of a dozen research areas chosen by the Royal Society to get a funding boost. The Royal Society Te Apārangi announced the 12 recipients of its Mana Tūānuku Research Leader ...

When you look at the world’s oldest tourist sites, their survival often feels improbable. Many of these places were built ...

For every man older than 110, there are nine women. Before she died in August at age 117, supercentenarian Maria Branyas — the world’s oldest verified person — credited her bonus years not to any high ...

English is indisputably the world language today, and how it got to be so is a topic well worth discussing, but in this ...

About 50,000 years ago, humanity lost one of its last surviving hominin cousins, Homo floresiensis (also known as “the hobbit” thanks to its small stature). The cause of its disappearance, after more ...