EPISODE · Oct 15, 2009 · 1 MIN

Ardi-Facts

from US News | Science Discoveries · host National Science Foundation

An international team of scientists has for the first time thoroughly described Ardipithecus ramidus, a hominid species that lived 4.4 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia. The female skeleton, nicknamed Ardi, is 4.4 million years old, 1.2 million years older than the skeleton of Lucy.

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