He painstakingly removed a fossil skull from this material ... It was nicknamed the Taung Child, a reference to the discovery ...

The first significant discovery was that of the "Taung child" in 1925. Found in South Africa, the skull belonged to a child who was at a stage of development of a present-day six year old.

It wasn’t the size of human brains that distinguished people from apes, he theorized, but the way they were organized. He ...

which became known as the Taung child skull. The paper's author, an Australian-born anatomist called Raymond Dart, argued that the fossil was a new species of hominin called Australopithecus ...

Inside the box, he found a fossilized mold of a brain and a matching child’s skull partially buried in stone ... The 2.5-million-year-old “Taung Child” or “Taung Baby,” as Dart called ...

In them, he discovered the skull of what would become known as the “Taung Child.” Though the fossil exhibited apelike features, the position of the foramen magnum, or the opening that allows ...

which became known as the Taung child skull. The paper's author, an Australian-born anatomist called Raymond Dart, argued that the fossil was a new species of hominin called Australopithecus ...