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 ...

"He is but a skeleton of rebar," Rick Ryan said of the moai head — or what's left of it — that stood with an identical twin outside the doors of the Kahiki Supper Club from 1961 until it was ...

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, one of Easter Island's iconic statues, has been discovered in the bed of a dry lake in a volcano crater. The Moai was found by scientific volunteers working to restore marshland in ...

Moai in Rapa Nui National Park on the slopes of Rano Raraku volcano on Easter Island, Chile. There are approximately 1,000 moai statues on Easter Island, but the recent discovery has excited ...

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 ...

meaning no human being could have left the moai there in that time," said Huki, who is also the provincial head of the local branch of the national forestry corporation, which is collaborating ...

A devastating wildfire earlier this week caused "unmeasurable" damage to a number of Easter Island’s famous stone head statues ... painful to see how the Moai burned," said Francisco Haoa ...

At latest count on the island, there are 1,043 complete moai, enormous statues with prominent heads made from volcanic stone. Contrary to popular belief, they aren’t just heads—they have ...

Tullahoma, located at the edge of the Highland Rim, is the home of several replica Moai head statues. They stand dozens of feet tall along the CSX railroad that passes through the community ...

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 ...