Strange shifts in wind patterns cleared the path to Easter Island

Thursday, October 2, 2014 - 02:30 in Biology & Nature

Australian researchers have figured out how humans made it to one of the most remote islands in the world. Strange shifts in wind direction appear to have opened up the South Pacific for just a tiny pocket of time, before closing it back up again just as quickly.

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