Scientists turn to ancient DNA to understand the history of Easter Island, a remote island in the Pacific Ocean also known as ...

New DNA analysis adds to growing research indicating the famous Pacific island did not collapse from overuse of resources ...

Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island or Te Pito o Te Henua (the navel of the world), is one of the most remote inhabited ...

A DNA analysis of 15 Rapa Nui individuals revealed that there was never a population collapse on Easter Island and that the ...

New research reveals that there was contact with Indigenous Americans before European arrival. Rapa Nui, also known as Te ...

Rapa Nui or Te Pito o Te Henua (the navel of the world), also known as Easter Island, is one of the most isolated inhabited ...

A new study puts what a researcher calls the "final nail in the coffin" regarding a longstanding narrative about Rapa Nui, ...

DNA extracted from 15 corpses stored in a Paris museum has yielded a monumental surprise: the Rapa Nui, inhabitants of Easter ...

DNA analysis shows that people from Easter Island had contact with Indigenous Americans around the 1300s, and finds there was ...

The new study also indicates the Polynesian people who settled Rapa Nui mixed with indigenous South Americans centuries ...

Genomes from people native to the island show that its original population was part of the Polynesian expansion across the ...

Scientists have long debated the theory that inhabitants deforested the island, triggering their own demographic collapse in ...