The Taung Child's Horrible Demise
The first Australopithecine to be discovered, and the type specimen of the genus, was the so-called Taung Child. At the age of three and a half the Taung Child was eaten by an eagle. The evidence is that damage marks to the eye sockets of the fossil are identical to marks made by modern eagles on modern monkeys as they rip out their eyes. Poor little Taung Child, shrieking on the wind as you were borne aloft by the aquiline fury, you would have found no comfort in your destined fame, two and a half million years on, as the type specimen of Australopithecus africanus. Poor Taung mother, weeping in the Pliocene.
Notes:
Killed by a bird of prey.
Folksonomies: history evolution
Taxonomies:
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Entities:
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Concepts:
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Eagle (0.861243): dbpedia | freebase | opencyc
Eye (0.765909): dbpedia | freebase | opencyc
Biology (0.764008): dbpedia | freebase | opencyc
Australopithecus (0.743789): dbpedia | freebase | yago
Taung Child (0.729744): website | dbpedia | freebase | yago
Pliocene (0.666153): dbpedia | freebase
Human evolution (0.622154): dbpedia | freebase
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