Taung Child: The World’s Oldest Murder Mystery

Yes, you read it right. Today we are going to be talking about the world’s oldest murder mystery, the taung child. Before we start, let us get familiar with who or what is the taung child. Taung child was the name given to the skull of a three-year-oldfound in 1924 by Raymond Dart in South Africa.
It was among the first early human fossils to be found in Africa and the first early human fossil discovery to draw major attention to this region as a place of origin of the human family tree.One of the importance of this find is that the fossilized anatomy represented the researchers evidences of early human uprightwalking or bipedalism.
Taung child belonged to the species Australopithecus africanus. Studies showed that this species lived approximately 3-2 million years ago. First fossils were found in 1924 in the Taung Quarry in South Africa. Australopithecus africanus, means “southern ape of Africa

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[wendydomino]

That must have hurt so much when the eagle dug the talons into this poor child's eyes.

[TheNotBees]

You are charged with being an eagle; how do you plead?

[extraterrestrialbeing]

So did they eat meat and fruit? Or just fruit