{
  "id": 19218696,
  "title": "3-million-year-old Taung Child once again shakes up our human family tree",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/09/3-million-year-old-taung-child-once-again-shakes-up-our-human-family",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-11-09T20:50:06.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phys.org",
    "slug": "phys-org",
    "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-11-million-year-taung-child-human.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "A century after the Taung Child permanently altered our view of human origins, a new study published in npj Palaeoecosystems dates the famous fossil to between 2.96 and 3.03 million years old. Led by professor Gabriele Macho of the Archaeology, Environmental Changes and Geo-Chemistry (AMGC) research group at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), the international research highlights that the human…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}