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How Rapa Nui Lost a Tree, Only to Have It Sprout Up Elsewhere
Another creature implicated in the destruction of much of both Rapa Nui’s and Hawaiʻi’s plant life was the Polynesian rat ...
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Easter Island inhabitants had contact with South America over a thousand years ago, study finds
Scientists know early settlers consumed fish, dolphins, seals, chicken, and rats. However ... The oral history of the native Rapa Nui people claims that at least a "one-round trip voyage to ...