EASTER ISLAND (WKRC) - Researchers now claim to have solved the enigma of how these statues were transported, they "walked." Although they appear to be just heads, many have full bodies buried by ...

Based on 3D modeling and testing on a moai replica, researchers think that small groups of people may have used ropes to "walk" the large statues across the island ...

Scientists may have solved the mystery of how the giant statues of Easter Island moved to their present locations.

The mystery of how the roughly 130,000 pound statues traveled from quarry to resting place may be solved.

The ancient moai statues of Easter Island may have been “walked” to their resting places, according to a new study.

Researchers at the State University of New York at Binghamton believe they've cracked the case of how Easter Island's famous ...

Archaeologists who analyzed the physics of the statues and their transport found that they were sculpted and transported in a way that resembles a walking motion.

Easter Island is famous for its giant monumental statues, called moai, built some 800 years ago and typically mounted on platforms called ahu. Scholars have puzzled over the moai on Easter Island for ...

Although rapamycin eventually became a billion-dollar drug, many of the people instrumental to its discovery—most importantly, the people of Rapa Nui—have been largely forgotten in both a monetary and ...