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 ...

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.

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 ...

She’s the ultimate evolutionary party crasher. Dubbed Ardi, her partial skeleton was unearthed in Ethiopia near the scattered remains of at least 36 of her comrades. Physical anthropologists had ...

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 ...

our teeth took a different evolutionary path. Our canines have actually become shorter over time. Just look at the canines on the first human, Ardipithecus ramidus, or Australopithecus anamensis ...

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 ...

A 6 million-year-old creature that lacked sharp canines for fighting may be the first prehuman to have branched off from the ape line, researchers said Thursday. The short, small-brained creature ...

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 ...