Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Surfing has been around for centuries. It is well-known that the ancient Polynesians and Hawaiians were among the first to ever ...

A citizen scientist's find on Norfolk Island has rewritten its history. Stone tools, dating back to the 13th-15th centuries, ...

How did the Polynesian peoples come to live on the far-flung islands of the Pacific? The question has intrigued researchers for centuries. Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl brought the topic to public ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - A Polynesian voyaging canoe will set sail from Hawaii in March and head into the South Pacific, aiming to reach tiny Palmyra Atoll near Kiribati using only an ancient seafaring ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New genetic research shows that there was mingling between ancient native peoples from Polynesia and South America, revealing a single episode of interbreeding roughly 800 years ...

Beginning more than a millennium ago, intrepid seafarers traversed vast Pacific Ocean expanses in double-hulled sailing canoes to reach the far-flung islands of Polynesia, the planet's last habitable ...

A canoe that has sailed around the world has docked in San Diego. KPBS reporter Katie Hyson climbed aboard to learn how the crew was taking back the ancient Polynesian voyaging tradition. Hidden ...

July 8 (UPI) --Ancient Polynesians and Native Americans hailing from what's now Colombia were in contact prior to the arrival of Europeans, according to a new genomic survey. The topic of precolonial ...

About 3,000 years ago, people on the eastern edge of Asia began sailing east, crossing the ocean to reach uninhabited islands. Their descendants, some 2,000 years later, invented the double-hulled ...