class="YtLlr aHS+3 V-v0y fm7dv _8teMo _5pKBM" data-component="Text">The statue was found on February 21 by a team of scientific volunteers from three Chilean universities collaborating on a project to restore the marshland in the crater of the Rano Raraku volcano. "This Moai has great potential for scientific and natural studies, it's a really unique discovery as it's the first time that that a Moai has been discovered inside a laguna (lake) in a Rano Raraku crater," the Ma'u Henua Indigenous community, which manages the island's national park, said in a statement. This service may include material from Agence France-Presse (AFP), APTN, Reuters, AAP, CNN and the BBC World Service which is copyright and cannot be reproduced