Taung Child (Australopithecus africanus) skull. This fossil was found in a limestone quarry in South Africa in 1924 and described by Raymond Dart in the Journal of Nature in 1925. The Taung Child skull was that of a three year old bipedal ape of the species Australopithecus africanus, an extinct hominid species which may be an ancestor of modern humans. The skull dates to the Pleistocene period, about million years old.

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