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I assumed this was talking about the 1860s, when camels were common in the American Southwest. Nope. This is about fossils. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unite
by dreamcompiler 6y ago
I assumed this was talking about the 1860s, when camels were common in the American Southwest. Nope. This is about fossils.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Camel_Corps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Camel_Corps
- perl4ever 6y agoInteresting factoid: "Their Arabian camels readily ate creosote bush, which little else eats. It is thought that this meeting reestablished a biological relationship that was broken when the American ancestors of the Arabian camel, such as Camelops, became extinct, making an evolutionary anachronism"