Scientists recently confirmed Rapa Nui legends about Moai heads "walking" to their locations, using 3D modeling to prove ...

After centuries of speculation, scientists have finally cracked the mystery of how the massive Moai statues were transported ...

The mystery of how the roughly 130,000 pound statues traveled from quarry to resting place may be solved.

EASTER ISLAND (WKRC) - Researchers now claim to have solved the enigma of how these statues were transported, they "walked." Although they appear to be just heads, many have full bodies buried by ...

Archaeologists analyzed the physics of the statues and their transport to find that they were transported in a way that ...

Simple physics may explain how the Easter Island statues could "walk" miles with only a handful of people, but the debate over their transport is far from over.

The mystery behind how the massive statues on Easter Island, called moai, were transported and positioned may finally be ...

Although rapamycin eventually became a billion-dollar drug, many of the people instrumental to its discovery—most importantly ...

A fire on Easter Island caused severe damage to multiple iconic Easter Island heads, photos show. The fire scorched about 250 acres of Easter Island, also known by its indigenous name Rapa Nui, the ...

Scientists have found a previously undiscovered moai, monolithic human figures carved by the Rapa Nui people on Easter Island, in a dry lake bed on the tiny island in the middle of the Pacific.