The Taung Child (or Taung Baby) is the fossilised skull of a young Australopithecus africanus. It was discovered in 1924 by quarrymen working for the Northern Lime Company in Taung, South Africa. Raymond Dart described it as a new species in the journal Nature in 1925.
The Taung skull is in repository at the University of Witwatersrand.[1] Dean Falk, a specialist in brain evolution, has called it "the most important anthropological fossil of the twentieth century."[2]
The TaungChild (or Taung Baby) is the fossilised skull of a young Australopithecus africanus. It was discovered in 1924 by quarrymen working for the...
Tau is the Tswana word for lion. In 1924, a skull (later named the TaungChild) was discovered by a quarry-worker in the nearby Buxton-limestone quarry...
species has been recovered from Taung, Sterkfontein, Makapansgat, and Gladysvale. The first specimen, the Taungchild, was described by anatomist Raymond...
juvenile Australopithecus africanus skull known as the "TaungChild", by Raymond Dart, at Taung in the North West Province of South Africa, where excavations...
The fossil skull was from a three-year-old bipedal primate (nicknamed TaungChild) that he named Australopithecus africanus. The first report was published...
that had killed them. The first early hominid ever found in Africa, the TaungChild in 1924, was also thought for many years to come from a cave, where it...
the Piltdown Man lost its validity, as other discoveries such as the TaungChild and Peking Man were made. R. W. Ehrich and G. M. Henderson note, "To...
africanus. The type specimen was the TaungChild, an australopithecine infant which was discovered in a cave. The child's remains were a remarkably well-preserved...
large birds of prey occasionally preyed on prehistoric hominids. The TaungChild, an early human found in Africa, is believed to have been killed by an...
that will scare the heck out of passersby Stratford-upon-Avon UFO and TaungChild October 18, 2008 67 Our two Mystery Hunters play detective. Some super...
hypothesis that was developed by Prof. Raymond Dart (who identified the Taungchild fossil in 1924, and published the find in Nature Magazine in 1925), which...
valuable specimens. Natural cranial endocasts are also known. The famous TaungChild, the first Australopithecus found, consists of a natural endocast connected...
referred to as the TaungChild and estimated to weigh 9 to 11 kg (20 to 24 lb), the child became the type specimen for its species. The child appeared to have...
[citation needed] The first early hominid ever found in Africa, the TaungChild in 1924, was also thought for many years to come from a cave, where it...
Australopithecus africanus, an extinct hominin closely related to humans, at Taung in the North of South Africa in the Northwest province. Raymond Dart was...
Cast of the skull of the Taungchild, uncovered in South Africa. The Child was an infant of the Australopithecus africanus species, an early form of hominin...
identified the first hominin fossil discovered in Africa, the TaungChild (found near Taung) in 1924. Other hominin remains have come from the sites of...
substantially strengthening Dart's claim that the skull known as the TaungChild (an Australopithecus africanus) was a human ancestor. There was a pause...
first specimen of Australopithecus africanus, the fossil skull of the "TaungChild", is identified in South Africa. S. N. Bose and Albert Einstein publish...
required them to reject Raymond Dart's far more ancient South African Taungchild (Australopithecus africanus) as a human ancestor, favouring the hoax...
dendrochronology (tree-ring dating). 1924 — Raymond Dart examines fossils of "TaungChild," found by quarrymen in South Africa, and names Australopithecus africanus...
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