Your browser does not support the audio element. Scientists in the U.S. and Ethiopia have unveiled fossils from a 4.4 million year old human ancestor. Her name: Ardi ...

Figuring out the story of human origins is like assembling a huge, complicated jigsaw puzzle that has lost most of its pieces. Many will never be found, and those that do turn up are sometimes hard to ...

CEBU, Philippines - Discovery Channel has announced the premiere of a two-hour special, DISCOVERING ARDI, documenting the sustained, intensive investigation leading up to the landmark publication of ...

In a special issue of Science, an international team of scientists has for the first time thoroughly described Ardipithecus ramidus, a hominid species that lived 4.4 million years ago in what is now ...

Newly discovered human-like footprints from Crete may put the established narrative of early human evolution to the test. The footprints are approximately 5.7 million years old and were made at a time ...

One of the most hotly debated issues in current human origins research focuses on how the 4.4 million-year-old African species Ardipithecus ramidus is related to the human lineage. New research ...

Ardi, short for Ardipithecus ramidus, is the newest fossil skeleton out of Africa to take its place in the gallery of human origins. At an age of 4.4 million years, it lived well before and was much ...

She lived at the dawn of a new era, when chimps and people began walking (or climbing) along their own evolutionary trails. This is Ardi - the oldest member of the human family tree we've found so far ...

An impression of what "Ardi" would have looked like based on the fossil finds An ancient human-like creature that may be a direct ancestor to our species has been described by researchers. The ...

Nearly 17 years after plucking the fossilized tooth of a new human ancestor from a pebbly desert in Ethiopia, an international team of scientists today (Thursday, Oct. 1) announced their ...

It seems man's oldest known ancestor is in a severe identity crisis. "Ardi," or Ardipithecus ramidus, a supposed ancestor of man. who was considered to be a scientific breakthrough of the Year 2009 by ...

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