These statues, often called “Easter Island heads,” actually have full bodies, many hidden under the soil. At the famous quarry of Rano Raraku, about 95% of the statues were carved from soft ...

Yet, it’s home to about 1,000 giant moai statues. Some are almost 30 feet tall and weigh up to 80 tons. This is Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui, a land full of history and culture. The moai were ...

On Easter Island, Felldrake and Sheldgoose convince the Moai to take a vacation from their duty of preventing evil Lava Lizards from incinerating the world. Donald refuses to go with the Caballeros as ...

Ever since 1722, when Captain Jacob Roggeveen, a Dutchman and the first European known to have reached Easter Island arrived, scholars have debated the origins of the isolated population he found ...

To stop them from becoming space junk, satellite operators send spacecraft to burn up in the atmosphere at mission’s end. The ...

Among the many secrets buried in Easter Island prehistory is the question of how the Rapanui people transported the multi-ton statues, or moai, from their quarries to their final ceremonial ahu ...

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Easter Island Head: You give me gum-gum! Larry: I give you gum-gum? Easter Island Head: You new Dum-dum. You give me gum-gum. Larry: Gee, okay, you know what? I have no gum-gum. Sorry. And my name isn ...

Two bodies have been found off Dauphin Island during a search for three boaters missing since Friday, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. The Marty Ann, a 20-foot white cuddy cabin boat that left ...

Hundreds are feared dead after the storm razed entire neighborhoods in Mayotte, a series of islands off the eastern coast of ...