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 ...

Norway's Kon-Tiki Museum on Wednesday returned human remains taken from Easter Island by the explorer Thor Heyerdahl during ...

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 ...

Ancient DNA from Rapa Nui (Easter Island) Refutes Best-Selling Population Collapse Theory Sep. 11, 2024 — Rapa Nui (Easter Island) with its gigantic statues and treeless landscape has fascinated ...

A DNA analyst testified at a pretrial hearing in the Caneiro family murder case about evidence seized from Paul Caniero's ...

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 ...

Artifacts and human remains taken by a Norwegian explorer and anthropologist in the late 1940s are being returned by a museum ...

Travel resumed to Easter Island last week after COVID-19 restrictions. Last weekend, the second regular flight was performed, thus reopening one of the most iconic tourist routes after sanitary ...

Forensic expert Stephen Kramer, who played a key role in identifying the true perpetrator of the Dana Ireland murder, said ...

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 ...