Taung

The Taung were an ancient sentient species of the Core Worlds planet Coruscant. The day of Taungsday was named for the species. The beskad, a traditional Mandalorian sword, was based on an ancient Taung design.Collapse of the Republic The Taung & Zhell Society, a student group at the University of Coruscant, shared its name with the species.Star Wars: The Rebel Files
==Behind the scenes==
Taung were first mentioned in the new Star Wars canon in the sixty-first issue of Star Wars: Build the Millennium Falcon, published around March 2, 2016.
In the Star Wars Legends continuity, the Taung were the original species of Mandalorians. They first appeared in the first issue of the Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi – The Sith War comic book series,Tales of the Jedi – The Sith War 1 and were identified as Taung in the Star Wars Insider article "The History of the Mandalorians." That article elaborated the Taung as the precursor of the Mandalorian culture.
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*Star Wars: The Rebel Files 
*Collapse of the Republic
==Notes and references==
Category:Core Worlds species