In 2012, a US research team succeeded in propping up a 4.35-ton replica of a moai statue and making it “walk.” The technique, ...

Simple physics may explain how the Easter Island statues could "walk" miles with only a handful of people, but the debate ...

A groundbreaking study published in October 2025 has confirmed that the iconic moai statues of Easter Island were moved into ...

Scientists recently confirmed Rapa Nui legends about Moai heads "walking" to their locations, using 3D modeling to prove ...

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 ...

New research reveals that Easter Island’s moai statues were built to “walk” upright using a rhythmic rocking motion.

Although rapamycin eventually became a billion-dollar drug, many of the people instrumental to its discovery—most importantly ...

Archaeologists analyzed the physics of the statues and their transport to find that they were transported in a way that ...

New research suggests Easter Island's moai were stood up vertically and 'walked' along carefully crafted roads.

A LONG-RUNNING mystery over the Easter Island’s iconic heads has finally be solved. Experts have forever wondered how the ...

Easter Island, known for its iconic moai statues, has long been shrouded in mystery regarding how these massive stone figures were transported across the island. A recent study sheds light on this ...

We're off to Oceania ... (GREGORY BOISSY/AFP via Getty Images) Far off the Chilean coastline, tucked among the mystery of the grand Pacific Ocean—and more so, the Polynesian Triangle—lies Easter ...