In 1924 an Australian anthropologist and anatomist, Raymond Dart, acquired a block of calcified sediment from a limestone quarry in South Africa. He painstakingly removed a fossil skull from this ...

Australian anatomy professor Raymond Dart was adjusting the collar of his dress suit in preparation for a friend’s wedding when a box, shipped from a limestone quarry near Taung, South Africa, arrived ...

Taungs "man-like ape" stirs fury. Raymond Dart announces that a prehistoric "man-like ape" has been found in a limestone quarry at Taungs, South Africa. The fossils are found along with the skull ...

With a brain larger than a chimp's but smaller than a human's, it was a true missing link. Raymond Dart, the discoverer of the Taung child, realized its significance. But because the skulls of ...

Here’s how the story of the Taung Child fossil skull is usually told: In 1924 an Australian anthropologist and anatomist, Raymond Dart, acquired a block of calcified sediment from a limestone quarry ...

Fast forward to 1924. Paleontologist Raymond Dart, a professor at the University of Witwaterrand, was on his way to a wedding when he received two boxes from a quarry manager at Taung containing ...

The first major discovery of a hominid from the Cradle came in 1924, when the anatomist Raymond Dart found an unusual, bumpy rock among rubble that had been sent to him from a quarry. After months ...

The first example of Australopithecus was found in 1925 in a limestone cave near Taung, in South Africa, by the anthropologist Raymond Dart. He found the skull of a six year old creature with an ...

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