Over a century ago, anthropologist Raymond Dart chipped an ancient skull out of some rock from an ancient quarry — and ...

Here’s how the story of the Taung Child is usually told: In 1924 an Australian anthropologist and anatomist, Raymond Dart, acquired a block of calcified sediment from a limestone quarry in South ...

One day in the summer of 1924, an anthropologist named Raymond Dart made an incredible discovery — and drew a conclusion from it about human nature that would mislead us for a century. Dart was ...

In the 100 years since Raymond Dart’s seminal paper 1 introduced the Taung Child to the world, there has been a dramatic shift in how palaeoanthropology is studied and managed. The Taung child, the ...

We celebrate the centenary of Nature’s announcement of the discovery of the Taung child, Australopithecus africanus, a discovery that confirmed Africa as humanity’s cradle and revolutionised our ...

These files consist of 3D scans of historical objects in the collections of the Smithsonian and may be downloaded by you only for non-commercial, educational, and ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — The answer to a scientific whodunit has revealed a chilling fact: Some of our distant relatives were prey for birds. Scientists announced Thursday that they had definitive ...

Recent fossil finds could mean that "Lucy" wasn't our direct ancestor, some scientists say. Others strongly disagree.

A new analysis of an old human ancestor fossil indicates that human brains started growing 2.5 million years ago, about the time humans started walking upright. An unfused seam on the fossil's head ...

The 2.8 million-year-old Australopithecus africanus "Taung child" skull was discovered in South Africa in 1925. Source: Wikimedia/Creative Commons New research further validates that bipedalism ...

When this 3-year-old child's skull was found in 1924, it was among the first early human fossils to be found in Africa -- and the first early human fossil discovery to draw major attention to this ...