Fossils unearthed from an Ethiopian site not far from where the famous hominid Ardi’s partial skeleton was found suggest that her species was evolving different ways of walking upright more than 4 ...

This is the story of Ardi (Ardipithecus ramidus), one of our special ancestors called hominis. The discovery of her 4.4-million-year-old skeleton challenged everything we knew about evolution. Let's ...

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 ...

Ardi Talk on November 18! "Human Evolution: The New Fossil Ardipithecus, a Foot on the Ground & a Hand in the Trees!" An evening with the scientists who discovered and analyzed this exciting new ...

‘Ardi,’ the 4.4 million-year-old skeleton recently found in Ethiopia, will completely change the story of early humans, UA anthropologists said. The fossil has been assigned to the genus Ardipithecus ...

More than 1 million years before the early hominin known as Lucy was striding across the Afar region of Ethiopia, the lesser-known Ardipithecus ramidus roamed approximately the same area. Now, a team ...

KNOXVILLE — One of the most controversial proposed members of the human evolutionary family, considered an ancient ape by some skeptical scientists, is the real hominid deal, an analysis of a newly ...

Researchers knew that evolution gave humans a host of features. One of these features comes into the spotlight in the journal Communications Biology. The feature in question is walking upright or ...

A new method to estimate sexual dimorphism in fossil species near the base of our family tree has been just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), through the joint ...

The news media have been abuzz for the past few weeks with articles, documentaries and other features about the unearthing of a very old set of bones. The bones belong to Ardipithecus ramidus or, as ...

Ardipithecus ramidus, a four million year old ancestor of humans, was so important that it was declared the biggest scientific breakthrough of 2009. That might still be true – but we might also be ...