Ardipithecus is a genus of early hominid found in Ethiopia that lived approximately 4.4 million years ago. It is considered a descendant of Orrorin tugenensis and a direct ancestor of australopithecines. There were two species, A. ramidus and A. kadabba. A. ramidus had a skull similar in size to great apes and evidence shows it moved in a bipedal manner. New evidence from the Aramis site in Ethiopia, where a partial skeleton of A. ramidus was found, indicates through sedimentological and isotopic analysis that it lived in a river-margin forest within a savanna landscape, in