Extinct giant camel found far from the desert in Arctic discovery

Tuesday, March 5, 2013 - 11:00 in Paleontology & Archaeology

(Phys.org) —A Canadian research team, helped by scientists at The University of Manchester, has discovered the first evidence of an extinct giant camel in the High Arctic. The three-and-a-half million year old fossil was identified using collagen fingerprinting from bone fragments unearthed on Ellsmere Island. It's the furthest North a camel has ever been found.

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