Analysis of the fossil Ardipithecus ramidus, one of the earliest known hominids, suggests that our ancestors weren’t knuckle-walkers. Ewen Callaway explains what the bones tells us about “Ardi”‘s ...

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 ...

NEW YORK -- Last fall, a fossil skeleton named "Ardi" shook up the field of human evolution. Now, some scientists are raising doubts about what exactly the creature from Ethiopia was and what kind of ...

In other words, Ardi had a blend of physical features which enabled her to not only climb trees on four limbs, but walk erect on the ground while on two feet -- even if the big toe jutted out like an ...

After 17 years of scrabbling through the rocks and sand of Ethiopia's remote Afar deserts, a group of international scientists has recovered the partial skeleton of an extraordinary prehuman creature ...

As of today, humankind may have a new mother, and she looks nothing like we expected her to. Described in a series of papers published Thursday in Science, Ardi — short for Ardipithecus ramidus — ...

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Discover how Ardipithecus ramidus shifts our understanding of human evolution and the surprising traits of this ancient hominid. Ardi provides clues to what the last common ancestor shared by humans ...