In this 4.4-million-year-old skeleton, scientists may have found the missing step between climbing and walking.

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 ...

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 ...

Sileshi Semaw from the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), is coauthor of a paper published in the Journal of Human Evolution about a large series of fossil ...

One of the most hotly debated issues in current human origins research focuses on how the 4.4 million-year-old African species Ardipithecus ramidus is related to the human lineage. "Ardi" was an ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK — A fossil skeleton named “Ardi” shook up the field of human evolution last fall. Now, some scientists are raising doubts about what the creature from Ethiopia was and what kind of landscape ...

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 ...

One of the most hotly debated issues in current human origins research focuses on how the 4.4 million-year-old African species Ardipithecus ramidus is related to the human lineage. New research ...