Learn how rats, originally brought over to Easter Island as a food source, are partially to blame for the destruction of palm ...

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

New research shows how people, palms, and millions of rats shaped Easter Island long before Europeans arrived.

While the Rapa Nui people did play a role in the island’s deforestation, the greater role may belong to a virtual tidal wave ...

Dr. Terry Hunt from the University of Arizona and Dr. Carl Lipo from the University of Birmingham have published a study in the Journal of Archaeological Sciences, reassessing the role of Polynesian ...

Researchers say they 'walked' across Rapa Nui. For decades, researchers have puzzled over how the ancient people of Rapa Nui ...

For generations, the massive moai of Easter Island, called Rapa Nui by the locals, have stood in quiet testimony to one of archaeology’s longest-standing mysteries. How did an island society, remote ...

The deforestation of Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, has been a subject of intrigue and mystery among scientists.