The fossil skull that rocked the world—the Taung find's complex colonial legacy 100 years later
In 1924 an Australian anthropologist and anatomist, Raymond Dart, acquired a block of calcified sediment from a limestone ...
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The Taung Child: 100 Years Ago, A “Missing Link” Between Humans And Apes Was Revealed
The Star, a daily South African newspaper, featured a story on an exciting scientific discovery – the fossilized skull of a ...
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‘Taung Child’ fossil offers clues about the evolution of childhood
Dart’s report of the fossilized skull and matching endocast ... Given that Taung’s remains are missing from the neck down and that the fossil has been studied for an entire century ...
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Piltdown Man is revealed as fake
In 1925, Raymond Dart found the Taung skull, a fossil in South Africa that he believed was the earliest human ancestor (now known as Australopithecus). But few people accepted his find ...
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Taung Child
the discoverer of the Taung child, realized its significance. But because the skulls of young humans and young apes are so similar, and because the skull was so different from other found fossils ...
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Out of Africa: celebrating 100 years of human-origins research
A landmark study reporting the discovery of Australopithecus africanus one century ago put the African continent at the ...
Fossil of oldest known modern bird discovered in Antarctica
A 68-million-year-old skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird, which was likely related to ...
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The Taung Child Fossil (IMAGE)
This is the Taung Child fossil at the Evolutionary Studies Institute at Wits University. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert!
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Rediscovered fossil reveals rare bird skull from 45 million years ago
The only other place that a similar skull fossil has been found is in the U.S. The Geiseltal Saxony-Anhalt is located south-west of Halle and was a lignite mining area until 1993. Numerous ...
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The fossil skull that rocked the world—the Taung find's complex colonial legacy 100 years later
He painstakingly removed a fossil skull from this material ... It was nicknamed the Taung Child, a reference to the discovery site and its young age. Dart is portrayed as prescient in most ...
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Fossil of oldest known modern bird discovered in Antarctica
A near complete skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird — a mallard duck-size creature related to the waterfowl that live by lakes and oceans today ...
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The Fossil Skull That Rocked The World 100 Years Later Scientists Are Grappling With The Taung Find's Complex Colonial Legacy
He painstakingly removed a fossil skull from this material ... It was nicknamed the Taung Child, a reference to the discovery site and its young age. The international scientific community ...