"Humans picked up some Neanderthal DNA through interbreeding, while the Neanderthal population, always fairly small, was ...

This older skeleton The story of humankind is reaching back another million years as scientists learn more about "Ardi," a hominid who lived 4.4 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia.

But the new find is perhaps most astonishing for its state of preservation. “These are arguably the most complete hominid skeletons ever discovered,” says Berger.

Before 'Lucy,' there was 'Ardi': Oldest hominid skeleton provides new evidence for human evolution (w/ Video) In a special issue of Science, an international team of scientists has for the first ...

Ethiopians worried on Tuesday that the fragile bones of their world-famous skeleton -- the remains of a more than 3-million-year-old female hominid known as "Lucy" -- may not survive a six year U ...

There’s some news about everyone’s favorite great-great-great-great-great-(etc.) aunt, Lucy. Also known as AL 288-1 and Dinkinesh, our shared ancestor (or rather, 40 percent of her skeleton ...

The skeleton of an early human who lived 4.4 million years ago shows that humans did not evolve from chimpanzee-like ... The hominid species lived 4.4 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia.

Reaction From 'Lucy's' Discoverer Robert Siegel talks about the discovery in Chad with Donald Johanson, founder of the Institute of Human Origins in Berkeley, Calif. Dr. Johanson is the ...