When archaeologists dig up nuts from the extinct Easter Island palm, the nuts are often marred by tiny grooves, made by the sharp teeth of Polynesian rats. The rats arrived in the same canoes as ...

Voyaging canoes moved southward, northward and southeast to ultimately inhabit Easter Island, Hawaii, and New Zealand, all in the short period of about 400 years. When Europeans first explored the ...

What actually the Easter Island sculpture does ... On the back of the statue's head are two stylised canoe paddles, each with what looks like a miniature version of our statue's face at the ...

Easter Island — also called Isla de Pascua and Rapa ... with the remains of villages surrounding them. There are canoe-shaped boat houses, the remains of buildings, caves and petroglyphs near ...

The islands scattered along the north shore of New Guinea first drew these canoe people eastwards into ... the islands of Hawai'i in the north, Easter Island in the southeast, and New Zealand ...

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 ...