It was the first evidence that humanity originated ... of the origins of humanity. It described a fossil, found in a lime mine in Taung in South Africa, which became known as the Taung child ...

A fossilised 113-million-year-old hell ant from Brazil adds to the evidence that the first ants evolved in the southern ...

The international scientific community rebuffed this hypothesis. They were looking outside Africa for human origins and argued that the skull more likely belonged to a non-human primate. Dart was ...

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 ...

The first sign that there might be a different road to humanness came in the 1920s, when Raymond Dart described the fossil skull known as the Taung child ... pieces of evidence yet found that ...

Scientists began unearthing hundreds of hominin fossils in and around Taung and Sterkfontein ... The Cave of Hearths exhibits evidence of the earliest controlled use of fire in Africa, and ...

But Lucy is just one of many famous hominin fossils. From the "Taung Child" to "the Hobbit ... Tolkien's "The Hobbit," Thorin has provided evidence that Neanderthals died out because they ...

Researchers who first examined the Taiwan fossil dubbed it Penghu 1 and classified it as an unknown Homo species. Two lines of evidence now put Penghu 1, a right lower jaw that retains four cheek ...