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.

Easter Island's famous moai statues slowly fading away 13:32. Now we take you on a journey to Easter Island. It's one of the most remote inhabited islands in the world, far into the Pacific, 2200 ...

On average, they stand 13 feet high and weigh 14 tons, human heads-on-torsos carved in the male form from rough hardened volcanic ash. The islanders call them "moai," and they have puzzled ...

The two students first selected one among the many sculptures on the island to work with—a manageable thirteen-foot-high head. That's also the average size of the figures—of which there are nearly 900 ...

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 ...

The 887 monolithic human figures carved from rock on Easter Island (known as moai) are familiar to many people through iconic images that show the statues to be either just heads or a combination ...

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.

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) ...

Scientists on Easter Island say they have uncovered another of its iconic moai head statues after a lake in an extinct volcano dried up. The monolithic head carving was found on its side submerged ...

A new moai statue has been found buried in a dry lake bed on Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island. The team who discovered the stone head believes that there could be even more in the lake bed ...

Easter Island's famous moai statues slowly fading away 13:40. On this Easter Sunday, we thought it would be fitting to take you on a journey to Easter Island.