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Rapa Nui's Famous Moai Statues Really "Walked" – Physics Confirms Itseven moai statures are visible in this image.

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Rapa Nui's Famous Moai Statues Really "Walked" – Physics Confirms Itseven moai statures are visible in this image.
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Rapa Nui's Famous Moai Statues Really "Walked" – Physics Confirms It

clock-iconOctober 9, 2025
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In The Soil Of Easter Island, Scientists Found An Anti-Aging Drug That Changed Medicine ForeverEaster Island, called Rapa Nui in the native language, has more than 900 moai statues.

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In The Soil Of Easter Island, Scientists Found An Anti-Aging Drug That Changed Medicine ForeverEaster Island, called Rapa Nui in the native language, has more than 900 moai statues.
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In The Soil Of Easter Island, Scientists Found An Anti-Aging Drug That Changed Medicine Forever

clock-iconOctober 1, 2025
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Easter Island Was Never As Isolated As We Thought – Study Puts That "Strange Argument" To BedMoai on Rapa Nui

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Easter Island Was Never As Isolated As We Thought – Study Puts That "Strange Argument" To BedMoai on Rapa Nui
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Easter Island Was Never As Isolated As We Thought – Study Puts That "Strange Argument" To Bed

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Easter Island Reveals Odd Insights Into Earth's Tectonic Plates And MantleRapa Nui, aka Easter Island, is most famous for its giant maoi stone statues.

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Easter Island Reveals Odd Insights Into Earth's Tectonic Plates And MantleRapa Nui, aka Easter Island, is most famous for its giant maoi stone statues.
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Easter Island Reveals Odd Insights Into Earth's Tectonic Plates And Mantle

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Ancient DNA From Rapa Nui Shows Polynesians And Native Americans InterbredDawn at Ahu Tongariki, Rapa Nui. New evidence shows they were constructed in between visits to South America, and by a steadily growing population, rather than an unsustainable surge.

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Ancient DNA From Rapa Nui Shows Polynesians And Native Americans InterbredDawn at Ahu Tongariki, Rapa Nui. New evidence shows they were constructed in between visits to South America, and by a steadily growing population, rather than an unsustainable surge.
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Ancient DNA From Rapa Nui Shows Polynesians And Native Americans Interbred

clock-iconSeptember 11, 2024
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Rongorongo: The Mysterious Writing Of Easter Island Is Still UndecipheredGiant head-shaped monuments, called moai, on the island of Rapa Nui, or Easter Island..

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Rongorongo: The Mysterious Writing Of Easter Island Is Still UndecipheredGiant head-shaped monuments, called moai, on the island of Rapa Nui, or Easter Island..
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Rongorongo: The Mysterious Writing Of Easter Island Is Still Undeciphered

clock-iconJuly 31, 2024
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Easter Island’s Catastrophic Population Collapse Probably Never Actually HappenedRapa Nui Moai

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Easter Island’s Catastrophic Population Collapse Probably Never Actually HappenedRapa Nui Moai
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Easter Island’s Catastrophic Population Collapse Probably Never Actually Happened

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Over 50 Unknown Species Found In "Pristine" Marine Ecosystems Near Rapa NuiA Chaunax (genus of bony fish in the sea toad family) documented during a dive near the southwestern flank of Rapa Nui

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Over 50 Unknown Species Found In "Pristine" Marine Ecosystems Near Rapa NuiA Chaunax (genus of bony fish in the sea toad family) documented during a dive near the southwestern flank of Rapa Nui
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Over 50 Unknown Species Found In "Pristine" Marine Ecosystems Near Rapa Nui

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Why Do Some Easter Island Moai Have Red Hats On?Not all the maoi of Rapa Nui had red "pukao" hats, so why were they special?

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Why Do Some Easter Island Moai Have Red Hats On?Not all the maoi of Rapa Nui had red "pukao" hats, so why were they special?
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Why Do Some Easter Island Moai Have Red Hats On?

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New Mysterious Easter Island Moai Discovered In Dried Up Lake BedA stone head on Rapa Nui, one of nearly a thousand.

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New Mysterious Easter Island Moai Discovered In Dried Up Lake BedA stone head on Rapa Nui, one of nearly a thousand.
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New Mysterious Easter Island Moai Discovered In Dried Up Lake Bed

clock-iconFebruary 28, 2023
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Pickup Truck Crashes Into One Of The Famous Easter Island Moai Statuesarticle image

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Pickup Truck Crashes Into One Of The Famous Easter Island Moai Statuesarticle image

Pickup Truck Crashes Into One Of The Famous Easter Island Moai Statues

clock-iconMarch 7, 2020
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Researchers Piece Together What Happened On Rapa Nui Following European Contactarticle image

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Researchers Piece Together What Happened On Rapa Nui Following European Contactarticle image

Researchers Piece Together What Happened On Rapa Nui Following European Contact

clock-iconFebruary 6, 2020
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New Theory Proposed For Why Rapa Nui’s Mysterious Moai Statues Were Builtarticle image

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New Theory Proposed For Why Rapa Nui’s Mysterious Moai Statues Were Builtarticle image

New Theory Proposed For Why Rapa Nui’s Mysterious Moai Statues Were Built

clock-iconDecember 16, 2019
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Easter Island’s Famous Moai Stone Statues Are Threatened By Huge Tourism Boostarticle image

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Easter Island’s Famous Moai Stone Statues Are Threatened By Huge Tourism Boostarticle image

Easter Island’s Famous Moai Stone Statues Are Threatened By Huge Tourism Boost

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Scientists Believe They Have Finally Discovered What Easter Island's Statues Were Forarticle image

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Scientists Believe They Have Finally Discovered What Easter Island's Statues Were Forarticle image

Scientists Believe They Have Finally Discovered What Easter Island's Statues Were For

clock-iconOctober 11, 2018
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