Revolutionary fossil evidence from Ethiopia is challenging decades of scientific consensus about human origins. New discoveries suggest that the famous Lucy fossil, long considered a direct ancestor ...

"Ardi" fossils from Ethiopia are 4.4 million years old. Oct. 1, 2009 — -- Scientists today told the world what they know about Ardipithecus ramidus-- "Ardi" for short -- the oldest pre-human ...

The 3.18-million-year-old bone fragments of human ancestor Lucy, which rarely leave Ethiopia, went on display in Prague on Monday, with the Czech prime minister hailing the fossils' "first ever" ...

Lucy may be the best-known prehuman fossil in the world. But other famous fossils have given us important insight into our evolutionary history. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Ardipithecus ramidus is a female who lived 4.4 million years ago. Her skeleton has been described as one of the most important discoveries of the past century. Tim White 2009, From Science Oct. 2 ...

A treasure trove of 4.4-million-year-old fossils from the Ethiopian desert is dramatically overturning widely held ideas about the early evolution of humans and how they came to walk upright, even as ...

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 ...

Every once in a great while paleontological fieldwork turns up a fossil so extraordinary that it revolutionizes our understanding of the origin and evolution of an entire branch of the tree of life.

Fifty years after a fossil skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis was unearthed in Ethiopia, we know so much more about how this iconic species lived and died. When you purchase through links on our ...

FILE - The framed hominid fossil "Lucy" is seen at a exhibition at the Ethiopian Natural History Museum in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2006. (AP Photo/Les Neuhaus, file) ...

Ardi, short for Ardipithecus ramidus, is now the region’s best-known fossil, having made news worldwide this past fall when White and others published a series of papers detailing her skeleton and ...