Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Surprise, surprise! Will Smith dropped her official debut album today (Dec 11) without warning. The 15-track project’s material ...

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 — ...

After a series of hints, Willow Smith has indeed released her debut album Ardipithecus Ramidus on December 11. The 15-year-old is credited as the sole writer on 14 of the 15 tracks from the album. Her ...

For the first time, scientists have thoroughly described Ardipithecus ramidus, a hominid species that lived 4.4 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia. Several new studies offer the first ...

More than 1 million years before the early hominin known as Lucy was striding across the Afar region of Ethiopia, the lesser-known Ardipithecus ramidus roamed approximately the same area. Now, a team ...

This press release is available in Chinese, French, Japanese and Spanish. The research that brought to light the fossils of Ardipithecus ramidus, a hominid species that lived 4.4 million years ago in ...

Ardipithecus ramidus, a four million year old ancestor of humans, was so important that it was declared the biggest scientific breakthrough of 2009. That might still ...

A new method to estimate sexual dimorphism in fossil species near the base of our family tree has been just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), through the joint ...

Our distant ancestors may have swung from branches and knuckle-walked like a chimpanzee – challenging recent thinking that the earliest hominins did neither. That is the conclusion of an analysis of 4 ...

A new study reveals humans evolved from African ape-like ancestors. Researchers analysed the ankle bones of Ardipithecus ramidus, nicknamed “Ardi.” The fossil is 4.4 million years old. Ardi possesses ...

Nearly 17 years after plucking the fossilized tooth of a new human ancestor from a pebbly desert in Ethiopia, an international team of scientists today (Thursday, Oct. 1) announced their ...