Learn how rats, originally brought over to Easter Island as a food source, are partially to blame for the destruction of palm ...

A new paper advances the decades-long argument regarding whether rats were the driving force that deforested Rapa Nui, aka ...

University of Arizona anthropologist Terry L. Hunt and Lipo explore the complex situation in "Reassessing the role of ...

New research shows how people, palms, and millions of rats shaped Easter Island long before Europeans arrived.

A dark Easter Island mystery has been solved after scientists found clues as to what caused an "extinction event" on the ...