It’s been 4.4 million years since a female now nicknamed Ardi lived in eastern Africa, but she still knows how to make an entrance. Analyses of her partial skeleton and the remains of at least ...

As of today, humankind may have a new mother, and she looks nothing like we expected her to. Described in a series of papers published Thursday in Science, Ardi — short for Ardipithecus ramidus ...

They have been classified under the taxonomic designation Ardipithecus ramidus. The initial discovery was made in 1992, consisting of several teeth and a jaw. A report of these finds was published ...

At first, Ardipithecus ramidus was yet another scrappy pre-Lucy ... Those of you reading this post that have a Y chromosome have canine teeth that are about the same size as those of my XX readers.

The relatively large back teeth and narrow front teeth indicate that Ardipithecus ramidus kadabba ate less fruit and more soft leaves and fibrous food than his chimpanzee contemporaries ...

The remains of Ardipithecus ramidus. Raphael GAILLARDE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Image He doubts this interpretation for one reason: monkeys and lemurs are the only primates that use above-branch ...

The relatively large back teeth and narrow front teeth indicate that Ardipithecus ramidus kadabba ate less fruit and more soft leaves and fibrous food than his chimpanzee contemporaries ...