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Remains Of A Giant Found In Frozen Wasteland (W/Video)

Photo: Modern Dromedary camel in outback Australia, near Silverton, NSW. CREDIT John o’Neill SOURCE : Wikipedia

from Ideas, Inventions And Innovations

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 2013

A research team led by the Canadian Museum of Nature has identified the first evidence for an extinct giant camel in Canada’s High Arctic. The discovery is based on 30 fossil fragments of a leg bone found on Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, and represents the most northerly record for early camels, whose ancestors are known to have originated in North America some 45 million years ago.

The fossils were collected over three summer field seasons (2006, 2008 and 2010) and are about three and a half million years old, dating from the mid-Pliocene Epoch. Other fossil finds at the site suggest this High Arctic camel lived in a boreal-type forest environment, during a global warm phase on the planet.  . . . Read Complete Report

from canadanaturemuseum

Published on Mar 5, 2013