Fossils unearthed from an Ethiopian site not far from where the famous hominid Ardi’s partial skeleton was found suggest that her species was evolving different ways of walking upright more than 4 ...

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 ...

After a series of hints, Willow Smith has indeed released her debut album Ardipithecus Ramidus on December 11. The 15-year-old is credited as the sole writer on 14 of the 15 tracks from the album. Her ...

The oldest distinguishing feature between humans and our ape cousins is our ability to walk on two legs - a trait known as bipedalism. Among mammals, only humans and our ancestors perform this ...

A new method to estimate sexual dimorphism in fossil species near the base of our family tree has been just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), through the joint ...

Discover the significance of Ardipithecus ramidus, a pivotal early hominid revealing insights into our ancestors’ evolution. C. Owen Lovejoy of Kent State University spearheaded the studies on how ...

Ancestors of modern humans who lived 4.4 million years ago were well-suited to swinging in trees and a life in the branches. Hand bones of Ardi, a member of the ancient human relative species ...

New-found fossils have fueled controversy surrounding the earliest days of our hominid ancestors, and those of chimpanzees, our closest living relatives in the animal kingdom. Chimpanzees' and humans' ...