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One hundred years ago the discovery of a skull in South Africa's North West province altered our understanding of human evolution. The juvenile skull was dubbed the Taung Child by Raymond Dart, an ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: In 1998, paleoanthropologist Ronald Clarke and his research team discovered the skull of a previously unknown human ancestor in South Africa’s ...

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 ...

Archaeologists in a structure above the entrance to Sterkfontein in 2005. Source – Wikipedia user, CC SA 3.0. The fossils of our earliest ancestors found in South Africa are a million years older than ...

Little Foot's face looks like it has been through a slow-motion car crash, because it has. For millions of years, rock pressure and shifting sediments pushed and twisted the fossil's facial bones ...

The Taung Skull Fossil Site, part of the extension to the site inscribed in 1999, is the place where in 1924 the celebrated Taung Skull – a specimen of the species Australopithecus africanus – was ...