Another shock came last year when Tim White of the University of California, Berkeley, and the Middle Awash Team unveiled Ardipithecus ramidus («Ardi»), a 4.4 million - year -
old fossil female hominid.
Not exact matches
At a news conference attended by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the authors unveiled the nearly complete
fossil of a nine - month -
old female primate that had been found at the site of Messel in Germany.
The most famous
fossil to be discovered from the Australopithecus afarensis species is a 3.2 million year -
old partial skeleton named Lucy, a
female hominin discovered in Ethiopia in 1974.