This undated file artist's rendering provided by the journal Science shows the probable life appearance in anterior view of Ardipithecus ramidus also known as "Ardi". Last year, the fossil ...

Meet Ardipithecus. This introduction has been a long time coming. Some 4.4 million years ago, a hominid now known as Ardipithecus ramidus lived in what were then forests in Ethiopia. Fifteen years ...

Ardipithecus ramidus is a human ancestor that lived nearly 4.4 million years ago. Our understanding of it is predominantly linked to a partial skeleton found in 2009, nicknamed 'Ardi.' ...

The skeleton of Ardipithecus ramidus, an ancient fossil dubbed "Ardi," is radically changing our ideas about mankind's origins. Kent State University's C. Owen Lovejoy says Ardi shows our ...

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Motivation from the study had originally come from the unique success of both teams in recovering fossils from ancient time horizons, their most celebrated discoveries being the ~4.5-million-year-old ...