For years, researchers have debated how the Indigenous people of Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, managed to move their giant ...

Based on 3D modeling and testing on a moai replica, researchers think that small groups of people may have used ropes to ...

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

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

The ancient moai statues of Easter Island may have been “walked” to their resting places, according to a new study.

Researchers at the State University of New York at Binghamton believe they've cracked the case of how Easter Island's famous ...

Easter Island statues, traditionally known as moai on the remote island of Rapa Nui in the South Pacific, are some of the ...

Scientists may have solved the mystery of how the giant statues of Easter Island moved to their present locations.

For many years, people have wondered how the giant stone statues on Easter Island were moved. These statues, famous for their ...

Easter Island’s Moai statues weren’t dragged - they walked. Physics and experiments uncover how ancient islanders made stone giants move.

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