 The first "Australopithecus" specimen, the type specimen, was discovered in 1924 in a lime quarry by workers at Taung, South Africa.The specimen was studied by the Australian anatomist Raymond Dart, who was then working at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.The fossil skull was from a three-year-old bipedal primate that he named "Australopithecus africanus".