The Taungs were an ancient species of humanoid simians. Indigenous to the Core World of Coruscant, the two- meter -tall, gray -skinned Taungs were warriors from youth, and viewed battle as a source of honor both for the individual and their gods.

Taung is a small town situated in the North West Province of South Africa. The name means place of the lion and was named after Tau, the King of the Barolong people. Tau is the Tswana word for lion. [2]

The Taung Child (or Taung Baby) is the fossilised skull of a young Australopithecus africanus. It was discovered in 1924 by quarrymen working for the Northern Lime Company in Taung, South Africa. Raymond Dart described it as a new species in the journal Nature in 1925. The Taung skull is in repository at the University of Witwatersrand. [1]

When this 3-year-old child's skull was found in 1924, 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.

Taungoo (Burmese: တောင်ငူမြို့; MLCTS: taung ngu mrui., pronounced [tàʊɰ̃ŋù mjo̰] Tauñngu myoú; S'gaw Karen: တီအူ), also spelled Toungoo and formerly Toung-ngú, [2] is a district-level city in the Bago Region of Myanmar, 220 km from Yangon, towards the north-eastern end of the division, with mountain ...

Taung child, the first discovered fossil of Australopithecus africanus. Exhumed by miners in South Africa in 1924, the fossil was recognized as a primitive hominin (member of the human lineage) by paleoanthropologist Raymond Dart.

A brief history of Taung species, the first Mandalorians who fled Coruscant and conquered Mandalore, beginning a warrior's culture and creed that lasted for ...

2024年10月18日 · Discovered in 1924, the Taung Child skull was the world's first Australopithecus africanus discovery, but science was slow to accept its place in humanity's family tree.

2025年3月6日 · Historian Christa Kuljian and paleoanthropologist Dipuo Kgotleng talk to The Conversation Weekly podcast about the complicated legacy of the Taung child skull, 100 years since its discovery.

2025年2月8日 · The fossil skull that became known as the Taung Child introduced the world to a new hominin species 100 years ago. HERI, Author provided (no reuse)