Funny that it took 20 years to announce the discovery of these groundbreaking fossils. Either they were very hard to clean-up indeed or someone was hording them all to themselves. The discovery of Ardi was extremely important nontheless.
Scientists today announced the discovery of the oldest fossil skeleton of a human ancestor. The find reveals that our forebears underwent a previously unknown stage of evolution more than a million years before Lucy, the iconic early human ancestor specimen that walked the Earth 3.2 million years ago. (click here for more from National Geographic)
Picture courtesy J. H. Matternes via Science/AAAS
