Easter Island is home to approximately 1,000 large ... Famously, the Dodo—a large, flightless bird—survived on Mauritius for thousands of years but went extinct within 80 years of Dutch ...

No doubt the rats ate birds’ eggs too. Three volcanoes, quiet now, formed Easter Island half a million years ago. It has three crater lakes but no streams; fresh water is scarce. Chile ...

There is no place in the world like Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui. It feels like it is not even of this world. Located more than 2,000 miles from South America's mainland, it is one of the ...

Geologically speaking, Easter Island, which lies some 2,200 miles off ... "If we can rule out the accidental delivery of these zircons by birds, wind-borne dust (it's a long way from land ...