Friday 8 March 2013

There Used To Be Freaking Camels In The Arctic

In the northernmost reaches of Canada, within the Arctic Circle, scientists have found fossils of... camels. Wait, what? Yes, camels! North America was a crazy place a few million years ago.

The megafauna alone would make the world's most awesome zoo collection: giant sloths, mastodons, nine-foot saber-toothed salmon, dire wolves! And, believe it or not, camels. Camels originally arose in North America 45 million years ago and lived there until human migrated into the area around 16,000 years ago.

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