Explorers have long known there was more to the 887 statues on Easter Island—some 2,000 miles west of Chile—than just the statue heads made famous in photographs. When most people think of the ...

A wildfire began on Tuesday and swept through more than 148.26 acres. Rapanui Municipality/AFP via Getty Images A number of Easter Island’s iconic ‘Moai’ stone statues suffered irreparable damage ...

A devastating wildfire earlier this week caused "unmeasurable" damage to a number of Easter Island’s famous stone head statues. "It's unquantifiable, unmeasurable, the damage there is, it's ...

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

TULLAHOMA, Tenn. (WKRN) – You wouldn’t expect to find a piece of the South Pacific in landlocked Tennessee, but one Tennessee city has just that. Tullahoma, located at the edge of the Highland Rim, is ...

Several iconic Easter Island head statues suffered “irreparable” damage in a fire that may have been the result of arson, according to local officials. “More than 100 hectares were affected in the ...

In a surprising turn of events, a new moai statue has been discovered on Easter Island in 2025, challenging previous ...

Aforest fire that ripped through part of Easter Island has charred some of its iconic carved stone figures, known as moai, according to Chilean authorities. The world’s most remote inhabited island ...

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

The famous statues on Rapa Nui — also known as Easter Island — have suffered "irreparable" damage in a fire, local authorities said. A photo shared by the municipality of Rapa Nui on social media ...

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The fire has burned more than 247 acres of the Pacific island, where hundreds of haunting monolithic statues, called moai, have stood for centuries. By Johnny Diaz Some of the ancient monolithic ...