Giant camels once roamed the Canadian arctic. Pretty cool, eh?
A team of paleontologists discovered 30 bone shards from what they believe is a PREHISTORIC GIANT CAMEL.
The paper was published in Nature Communications.
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The shards of tibia bone were found in the boreal forests of Canada's High Arctic on Ellesmere Island.
Ellesmere Island is on the north-western tip of Greenland.
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Scientists identified the creature by comparing the fossils' prehistoric collagen to that of 37 other mammal species. Dromedary camels and prehistoric camels from the Yukon were the best match.
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The site of discovery is 746 miles north of any latitude where camels have previously been found.
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