http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091001/ap_on_sc/us_sci_before_lucy
Before Lucy came Ardi, new earliest hominid found
Before Lucy came Ardi, new earliest hominid found
WASHINGTON 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. The 110-pound, 4-foot female roamed forests a million years before the famous Lucy, long studied as the earliest skeleton of a human ancestor.