Remains of extinct giant camel discovered in High Arctic
Tuesday, March 5, 2013 - 16:01
in Earth & Climate
Remains of an extinct giant camel have been discovered on Ellesmere Island in Canada's High Arctic. The evidence collected is from 30 fragments of a leg bone, dating to about three-and-a-half million years ago from the mid-Pliocene Epoch, when the planet was undergoing a global warm phase.