Illustration by J.H. Matternes Paleoanthropologists have found evidence of seven different hominid species in the desert near Aramis (Yohannes Haile-Selassie, left, and Berhane Asfaw with Ardi ...

Hard to say. In the Middle Awash, there's that hominid-free fish layer drawing a curtain between them. Until more evidence is found, there or elsewhere, it is not clear whether Ardi is Lucy's ...

For that book, she visited several hominid field sites in Africa, but she was unable to wangle an invitation to the site in Ethiopia where the first pieces of a skeleton of “Ardi,” a pivotal ...

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 ...

He travels from the badlands of Ethiopia, where the famous hominid skeletons "Lucy" and "Ardi" were found, to a forest canopy in Florida, home to modern primates. En route, he explains how many ...