The boxes contained what would become one of the world’s most famous fossils, the Taung Child. 100 years of Australopithecus In just a few weeks — astonishingly — Dart was able to use this ...

The Taung Child discovery in 1924, initially dismissed by the scientific community, later validated Africa's significance in human origins. However, the research's colonial context led to ...

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The dramatic moment, which has since gone viral on social media, occurred as Masha, a 22-year-old mermaid performer, was swimming gracefully in an aquarium tank. A Russian mermaid performer was ...

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It was nicknamed the Taung Child, a reference to the discovery site and its young age. The international scientific community rebuffed this hypothesis. They were looking outside Africa for human ...

Baby Aurora was still inside her amniotic sac when she was born Credit: Adrian Sherratt It is also known as a veiled or mermaid delivery. En caul deliveries are rare, occurring in less than one in ...

The anthropologist who analyzed the fossil, dubbed the Taung Child, believed it was an ancestor of modern-day humans – but it would be another 20 years before he would be widely believed.