The oldest known fossil skeleton of a human ancestor--a female Ardipithecus ramidus specimen nicknamed "Ardi" (pictured)--has been found, scientists revealed yesterday.
The find reveals that our ancestors underwent a previously unknown stage of evolution more than a million years before Lucy, the early human ancestor specimen that walked the Earth 3.2 million years ago. Ardi lived 4.4 million years ago, according to researchers.
See more pictures, a map, and read a report of the discovery on National Geographic News.
Learn more from Science magazine.
Illustration courtesy J. H. Matternes via Science/AAAS
The find reveals that our ancestors underwent a previously unknown stage of evolution more than a million years before Lucy, the early human ancestor specimen that walked the Earth 3.2 million years ago. Ardi lived 4.4 million years ago, according to researchers.
See more pictures, a map, and read a report of the discovery on National Geographic News.
Learn more from Science magazine.
Illustration courtesy J. H. Matternes via Science/AAAS
Ardi proves nothing. She is just a misunderstood skeleton. It makes more sense to trust that God created us in his image. These discoveries could be used for more good than they are now. Doesn't everyone have the right to display his/her opinion?
Wow!!! How interesting!!!
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Even though I have already commented I just want to say that I agree that Ardi proves nothing. I also thing that there is no proof that there is a god or anything else for that matter. I think its best to just keep an open mind and as emshemie3 said 'everyone has the right to display his/her oppinion'!
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this is something you dont see in history in your life this is marvelous a great discovery i give it a 5/5
It's weird right know were studing about hominids and know this is going to make are test confusing
wow this is cool! it's just that the pic looks well creepy. it sounds interesting though. wow what is that,that,that...thing anyways..... is it really our ancestor???
what are you on about.i belive in alah. i think that this is all rubish
yeah man
wow
The mysteries and discoveries of the world are truly amazing to me. I like learning about these
things because what it shows is how unique human
beings really are and what seperates us from all other things. What really matters is how we educate ourselves... our opinions don't matter unless we are
educated. You can believe whatever you want but one
day you will realize how awesome the history of the
world is. Yearn to Learn! (P.S. Being able to SPELL
things correctly says a lot about a person too - in many ways... attitudes, mentality, etc. - it proves you need to read better books!)
That is pretty coooooooooool! It's kinda wierd but it's also really interesting.
Thank you, to everyone that supports Creationism. I appreciate you guys backing me up!
Being on the HUMOROUS side, Ardi may be the mother of Big foots out there! IF they do exist, that is. Or should it be said "Big Feet?"
cool!
Oh no our ancesters were gorillas!!! AHHH!!! That is just not right!!!!!
I wonder if it's real.The video of sasquatch is fake and maybe this is.It would be to crazy to believe a hairy unknown creature would just look at the camera and continue walking instead of attacking.This might be real because it was found by scientist and not pranksters.I don't mean to be rude but thats crazy!!!!!!I don't want to be half ape!!!
this is cool i don't get to look at this everyday i think that this is a gr8 story
I don't know how National Geographic can believe that everything came from nothing. For me, I believe in the God of the Bible.