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.

Here’s how the story of the Taung Child is usually told ... He painstakingly removed a fossil skull from this material. A few months later, on 7 February 1925, he published his description ...

Emese Gábor, a facial reconstruction specialist and portrait sculptor based in Hungary, told Fox News Digital that the potentially royal skull was discovered in the ossuary portion of the ...

From the "Taung Child" to "the Hobbit," here are ... Mrs. Ples became the most complete australopithecine skull ever found, dating back 2.35 million years. In 1959, an extremely robust ...