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 ...

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WASHINGTON -- The story of humankind is reaching back another million years as scientists learn more about "Ardi," a hominid who lived 4.4 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia. The 110-pound, ...

One of the earliest known hominids, a 4.4-million-year-old partial skeleton of a female dubbed Ardi, had hands suited for climbing trees and swinging from branches, a new investigation suggests. Hand ...

But Ardi didn’t walk like us or, for that matter, like Lucy either. Ardi’s lower pelvis, like a chimpanzee’s, had powerful hip and thigh muscles that would have made it difficult to run as fast or as ...

She is the most controversial, convention-defying, weirdest-looking fossil hominid ever found. Fittingly, the group that discovered this 4.4-million-year-old adult female, nicknamed Ardi, includes the ...

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 ...

Unless this is the first time you’ve check a news source today, you’ve already heard about Ardi, the ancient ancestor of Lucy. Huh? Let the Old Grey Lady explain: Ardi, short for Ardipithecus ramidus, ...

This release is available in Chinese, French, Spanish, Japanese and Amharic. In a special issue of Science, an international team of scientists has for the first time thoroughly described Ardipithecus ...

A startling discovery was announced today by the Post-Global Post-Institute of Post-Science, located on the shores of Mount Whitney. While laying the Ohio-to-Australia underwater super-conducting ...

The parched, sun-blasted badlands of Ethiopia's Afar Rift are a long way from the leafy stillness of University Circle. Seventy-three hundred miles, to be precise. But the road to the African desert ...

The story of humankind is reaching back another million years as scientists learn more about “Ardi,” a hominid who lived 4.4 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia. The 110-pound, 4-foot female ...