At the beginning of the last century, in 1924, during excavations near the South African village of Taung, a mysterious skull of a previously unknown creature was discovered.
The first to get acquainted with the unusual find was a professor at the University of Whitewaterssen (Johannesburg) Raymond Dart. An experienced professional, he immediately distinguished the skull found from the skulls of baboons that are often found during archaeological excavations. A strange creature, whose skull Darth was holding in his hands, he gave the name "Australopithecus Africanus", which means "ape man from Africa."
It is worth saying that the skull found looks truly impressive: a round, high forehead without browbones, a rather graceful jaw and visible thin bones. Everything indicates that the creature is humanoid. The skull, with a volume of 405 cm3, could well have increased to 440 cm3 with age. The fact is that Australopithecus Africanus was young at the time of its death. And therefore, this find has received worldwide fame under the name "the skull of a child from Taung."
Professor Dart determined that, judging by the structure of the skull, "Taung's child" is a bipedal and erect creature. And then his contemporaries and many colleagues of the scientist took this statement with hostility. They argued that the skull found belonged to a monkey, because in the early stages of development, baby monkeys and humans are very similar. But the final point here was put by a find in 1944, when the remains of an adult Australopithecus were discovered. And then the "child of Taung" was declared a distant ancestor of man.
But modern scientists point to inconsistencies in this theory. In particular, respected scientists Lee Berger and Ron Clark, representatives of the University of Whitewatersrand, the same as Raymond Dart. They have been researching these remains for several years. And in the conclusion, they hypothesized that, in all likelihood, they belong not to the ancestor of man, not to an earthly being, but … to a humanoid.
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And what is most interesting, modern analysis was able to establish with high accuracy that the death of the "humanoid Taung" occurred more than 2.5 million years ago. This directly confirms the current versions of the ancient visits of the Earth by aliens, at a time when life on the planet was just beginning. Therefore, no one excludes new meetings with representatives of extraterrestrial civilizations.