The Pacific island of Rapa Nui — also called Easter Island by the Europeans that arrived there on a Sunday in 1722 — is arguably most famous for its iconic human-like volcanic rock statues called moai.

But since European settlers arrived at Rapa Nui a pervasive myth has persisted: Rapa Nui’s mere 3,000 inhabitants were incapable of erecting all these moai statues. Instead, Rapa Nui must have once had a larger population that had been depleted.

Now, a novel study used satellite data to debunk this myth, and reveal new information about the Rapa Nui people.

Ultraman is one of the most recognizable superheroes in history — just not in the United States. Since the character’s debut in the eponymous 1966 series, Ultraman has been a pioneer of the “kyodai (or giant) hero” genre and a staple of tokusatsu, the brand of effects-heavy media unique to Japan.

For Shannon Tindle (Kubo and the Two Strings, Lost Ollie) this meant that making his dream Ultraman story in the Netflix animated film Ultraman: Rising would require honoring the franchise’s near 60-year-old history just as much as it would require introducing it to people whose only exposure to kaiju is with Godzilla.