Here’s how it works. An underwater mountain chain off Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, hosts an "astonishing" array of deep-sea species, at least 50 of which are new to science ...

an 1800-mile-long chain of underwater mountains stretching between Easter Island—also known as Rapa Nui—and Chile. Primnoid corals observed during exploration of the Salas y Gómez Ridge (main ...

Scientists have found a previously undiscovered moai, monolithic human figures carved by the Rapa Nui people on Easter Island ... are buried nearby in the once-underwater site, scientists said.

This explains the rows of extinct underwater volcanoes in the Pacific Ocean, with one or a few active ones at the end. Had the team found evidence that the mantle plume under Easter Island has ...