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A shooting at El Camaron Gigante restaurant in Glendale, Arizona, left three dead and five injured. El Camaron Gigante is owned by El Camaron Gigante LLC, which is owned by David and Graciela ...
In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, thousands of miles from any continent, Easter Island rises out of the sea. Its surface tells a story of volcanism that began roughly 2.5 million years ago, but ...
There is no place in the world like Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui. It feels like it is not even of this world. Located more than 2,000 miles from South America's mainland, it is one of the ...
Easter Island is home to more than 900 giant Moai, with more still being discovered. The statues average about twice the height of a human and weigh up to 14 tons (12,700 kilograms).
DRONE: Flying above unfinished El Gigante moai statue on sunny Easter Island. Spectacular view from above of a sculpture with human features made of volcanic matter left unerected on exotic island.
Geologists studying Easter Island recently opened up another mystery centered around the famous region. A team from Colombia’s Universidad de Los Andes, led by Cuban geologist Yamirka Rojas ...
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 ...
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 ...
Popular theory claiming Easter Island’s population collapsed due to ‘ecocide’ is disproved. How modern archaeological research has rescued the reputation of the world’s most remote ancient ...
Scientists have debunked a popular myth surrounding Easter Island. An analysis of the island's famed rock gardens, undertaken by a team of researchers including faculty from Binghamton University ...
A mysterious script engraved on wooden tablets from Easter Island is completely unlike any other known form of text, suggesting that it may represent an independent writing system that is unique ...
Nearly 1,000 mysterious, monolithic moai statues have been drawing visitors to Easter Island—a 63-square-mile speck in the ocean, 2,100 miles from continental Chile—for more than a century.