The population of Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, interbred with Native Americans before Europeans arrived, despite 3,700 kilometers (2,300 miles) between them, ancient DNA suggests. The ...

Many researchers believed Rapa Nui, which is closer to South America than the Marquesas Islands, would be the earliest point of contact between Polynesians and Native Americans. Photograph by Jim ...

An international team of researchers are exploring a new theory surrounding the mysterious demise of Rapa Nui’s natives, those who built larger than life “moai” statues on the small Polynesian island ...

The researchers found that the Native American DNA arrived at Rapa Nui somewhere between 17 and 32 generations prior to the life of the individuals represented by these remains.

“Conflict between the Rapa Nui natives and the Chilean government has existed since 1888 when Chile signed a disputed treaty with the Rapa Nui people” said US Representative Eni F.H ...

Easter Island sits in the southeastern Pacific Ocean. Known to its natives as Rapa Nui and governed by Chile, this tiny volcanic outcropping is famous for its enigmatic moai statues, monolithic ...

Few places on earth are as well known for their so-called mysteries as Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui. For a tiny island of 64 square miles, with its nearest neighbours some 1,300 miles ...

From Rapa Nui -- setting of the doc "Eating Up Easter"-- to the Galápagos, Everest to Bali, take a virtual trip to see how locals fight back against tourist trash.

The island of Rapa Nui, the most isolated inhabited landmass on Earth, ... a 2020 genetic study revealed that Polynesians and Native Americans in what is now Colombia paired up in around A.D ...

Its native people, who are also named the Rapa Nui, first arrived on the island’s shores between 1150 and 1280 CE, and lived in isolation until the arrival of Dutch navigator Jacob Roggeveen in ...

How Rapa Nui Lost a Tree, ... To sketch the story of the weakening grip of native plant life on Rapa Nui as a predictable story of human arrogance intersecting with a small, ...