The Taung Child is a fossil of a skull. The skull also has an imprint of the brain. It belongs to an "Australopithecus africanus". It was discovered in 1924 by a quarryman working for the Northern Lime Company in Taung, South Africa. Raymond Dart]], an anatomist at the [[University of Witwatersrand, looked at the fossil, and saw its importance. Dart published his account in the journal "[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]" in 1925, describing it as a new species.