"Ardi" squarely falls in the better-angels/"Planet Earth" category. Documenting the major fossil find in Ethiopia that has been front-page news, “Discovering Ardi” is located between “Dirty Jobs” and ...

Discovery Channel has announced the premiere of a two-hour special, DISCOVERING ARDI, documenting the sustained, intensive investigation leading up to the landmark publication of the Ardipithecus ...

NEWS BRIEF: Discovery Enterprises International has secured distribution on a documentary about recently unveiled fossils of a prehuman dubbed Ardi. Discovering Ardi is a two-hour special that ...

The news media have been abuzz for the past few weeks with articles, documentaries and other features about the unearthing of a very old set of bones. The bones belong to Ardipithecus ramidus or, as ...

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 ...

Ohio-based scientists played key roles in finding, reconstructing and analyzing the 4.4-million-year-old species called Ardipithecus ramidus. After 15 years, the work of 47 researchers was published ...

"Ardi," the fossil female whose discovery is thought to stretch our human ancestry back more than 4 million years, has been challenged by specialists who discount the evidence of how she lived and ...

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 ...