have uncovered surprising evidence that the volcanic activity beneath Easter Island may have roots stretching back 165 million years. This revelation could reshape how you understand the Earth's ...

The Earth's mantle might not always move along in lockstep with the overlying tectonic crust—as set out in science textbooks for decades—but may instead behave differently. This is the ...

No doubt the rats ate birds’ eggs too. Three volcanoes, quiet now, formed Easter Island half a million years ago. It has three crater lakes but no streams; fresh water is scarce. Chile ...

Named Easter Island by the Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen, who first spied it on Easter Day 1722, this tiny spit of volcanic rock in the vast South Seas is, even today, the most remote inhabited ...

Easter Island Ahu Tongariki ... for nearly 30 years—about 95 percent of the statues were carved in the volcanic cone known as Rano Raraku. Master carvers, who taught their craft over generations ...

On average, they stand 13 feet high and weigh 14 tons, human heads-on-torsos carved in the male form from rough hardened volcanic ash ... moai that punctuate Easter Island's barren landscape.

UNESCO named Easter Island a World Heritage Site. But what makes this destination so special is the collection of enormous Moai statues made from volcanic stone that inhabit it, reaching 13ft in ...

This is the conclusion of an international team of geologists who made a mysterious find on Easter Island, the Chilean special territory in the Pacific that is famous for its giant statues.