The skeleton of Ardipithecus ramidus, an ancient fossil dubbed "Ardi," is radically changing our ideas about mankind's origins. Kent State University's C. Owen Lovejoy says Ardi shows our ...

Israel and Japan studied the fossil's base part of the cranium, found in Ethiopia in 2009, and reported to PNAS about the similarity that links Ardi to Australopithecus and modern humans ...

Two fossils named Ardi and Lucy provide evidence for human evolution. Both were found in Africa. Ardi is a female human-like fossilised skeleton that dates from 4.4 million years ago. Ardi's bones ...