Of course they have bodies! How is this news to anyone? A good part of these statues are well above ground including their bodies, and we've known the sunken ones have bodies below the ground for several decades already.

They've been excavating these statues for quite a while already.

Here, go read the Wikipedia article on Moai, it's way more interesting than this article (which is just a copy of the first few paragraphs of http://www.eisp.org/3879/ with the commentary "wild stuff" added):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moai

Now excuse me while I go submit an article about the Great Pyramids having five sides. Yes mind=blown, I know.