Ardi Talk on November 18! "Human Evolution: The New Fossil Ardipithecus, a Foot on the Ground & a Hand in the Trees!" An evening with the scientists who discovered and analyzed this exciting new ...

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 ...

Our distant ancestors may have swung from branches and knuckle-walked like a chimpanzee – challenging recent thinking that the earliest hominins did neither. That is the conclusion of an analysis of 4 ...

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 ...

African fossils of one of our earliest ancestors, who lived about 4.5 million years ago, could help fill some of the gaps in early human evolution, researchers said Wednesday. The remains of ...

This press release is available in Chinese, French, Japanese and Spanish. The research that brought to light the fossils of Ardipithecus ramidus, a hominid species that lived 4.4 million years ago in ...

Newly discovered human-like footprints from Crete may put the established narrative of early human evolution to the test. The footprints are approximately 5.7 million years old and were made at a time ...