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 ...

WASHINGTON — Ardi lived 4.4 million years ago in the woodlands of East Africa. She spent most of her time in the trees. She stood about 4 feet tall, weighed 110 pounds, and had long arms, short legs ...

This is an important question because many anthropologists see bipedalism – which means walking on two legs – as one of the defining characteristics of “hominins,” or modern humans, and their ...

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 ...

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 ...

New research gives weight to the idea that humans evolved from a species not dissimilar to an African ape. And it all comes down to the ankles. Humans stand apart - quite literally - from other ...