Walk Like a Man.

The article reports on the new fossil discovery of apelike Ardipithecus ramidus that adds more evidence that the 4.4 million year-old creature walked upright. Ever since paleoanthropologists found the first fossils of Ardipithecus ramidus in Ethiopia in 1992, researchers have wondered if this apelike creature walked upright, a traditional hallmark of the extended human family. Scientists initially identified A. ramidus as one of the earliest known hominids on the basis of features in its teeth. As researchers study the animal and plant fossils associated with A. ramidus at Gona, they hope to find out whether this early hominid lived in woodlands like those at Aramis or was able to inhabit more diverse terrain.