The 16-foot moai head once spouted fire from its perch outside the beloved Polynesian restaurant. Now it needs a lot of work to bring it back to life.

The 16-foot moai head once spouted fire from its perch outside the beloved Polynesian restaurant. Now it needs a lot of work to bring it back to life.

"We think we know all the moai, but then a new one turns up." Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui, is famous for the 1,000 ...

Six replica Moai heads, originally discovered on Easter Island in the South Pacific, sit stoic in Tullahoma, Tenn. They were created by local artist Steve Smith. (WKRN Photo) ...

Maybe this isn't a newsflash to everyone, but the Moai "heads" on Easter Island have bodies.Because some of the statues are set deep into the ground, and because the heads on the statues are ...

A potentially deliberate wildfire on Easter Island has wrought irreparable damage to the ancient moai head statues that dot the landscape of the Rapa Nui Natural Park, near the island’s Rano ...

The heads may be the most famous parts, but all the statues also have bodies. 95% of the figures were carved from compressed volcanic ash found on the side of the extinct Rano Raraku volcano.