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Easter Island Statues Might Have Been "Walked" Out of Quarry

Easter Island's massive stone statues once walked, claims a controversial new theory that explains how the megaliths were put into place.

Nearly 1,000 statues stand on the remote Polynesian island's 63 square miles, but much about their origin and the people who built them remains a mystery.

With the largest weighing 74 tons and standing nearly 33ft tall, few of the enigmas are more perplexing than how the megaliths - known as moai - were moved miles into place from the quarries where they were hewn.