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The Real Culprit Behind Easter Island’s Lost Forest Isn't Humans — It's Millions of Hungry Rats

Learn how rats, originally brought over to Easter Island as a food source, are partially to blame for the destruction of palm ...
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What transformed Easter Island? The answer isn’t what we thought

New research shows how people, palms, and millions of rats shaped Easter Island long before Europeans arrived.
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Who’s to Blame for Easter Island’s Deforestation? New Study Finds Rats Played a Role

A new paper advances the decades-long argument regarding whether rats were the driving force that deforested Rapa Nui, aka ...
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Rats Played Major Role In Easter Island's Deforestation, Study Reveals

University of Arizona anthropologist Terry L. Hunt and Lipo explore the complex situation in "Reassessing the role of ...
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Easter Island mystery SOLVED: Scientists pinpoint exactly ancient people moved the head statues

Now, scientists claim to have solved one important part of the mystery. Weighing between 12 and 80 tonnes, scientists have long wondered how the island's ancient civilisation could have moved the huge ...
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A billion-dollar drug was found in Easter Island soil – what scientists and companies owe the Indigenous people they studied

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Ted Powers, University of California, Davis (THE CONVERSATION) An antibiotic ...
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Easter Island's famous moai statues face growing threat from rising seas

“Sea level rise is real,” said Noah Paoa, lead author of the study and a doctoral student at the University of Hawaii at Manoa’s School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology. “It’s not a distant ...