Your browser does not support the audio element. Scientists in the U.S. and Ethiopia have unveiled fossils from a 4.4 million year old human ancestor. Her name: Ardi ...

NEW YORK -- Last fall, a fossil skeleton named "Ardi" shook up the field of human evolution. Now, some scientists are raising doubts about what exactly the creature from Ethiopia was and what kind of ...

Fossils, 4.4 million years old, questioned as leading to humans. May 28, 2010 — -- When Ardipithecus ramidus-- "Ardi" for short -- was shown off last fall, she took the scientific world by storm.

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 ...

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

"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 ...

Scientists in the U.S. and Ethiopia have unveiled fossils from a 4.4 million year old human ancestor. Her name: Ardi. The revelation: The early ancestors to humans were more modern than today’s apes ...

The parched, sun-blasted badlands of Ethiopia's Afar Rift are a long way from the leafy stillness of University Circle. Seventy-three hundred miles, to be precise. But the road to the African desert ...

Tim White gives an overview of the discovery of a hominid fossil known as Ardi. Paleoanthropologist Tim White and his team discovered a 4.4 million-year-old fossil they named Ardi. This fossil, along ...

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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 ...