Posted on 09/13/2008 1:03:48 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
DAMASCUS, Syria – Scientists have unearthed a camel jawbone in the Syrian desert that they think may be a previously unknown tiny species of the animal and say dates back a million years.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
This follows the finding of bones from the remains of a giant camel last year.
A new camel species from Syria? And?
What was Joe Biden doing in Syria?
They became bigger after they started cross-breeding with moslems.
10 Amazing Facts About Camels
The ship of the desert
http://news.softpedia.com/news/10-Amazing-Facts-About-Camels-68843.shtml
1. The oldest known camel is Protylopus, appeared 40-50 million years ago (Eocene) in North America. It had the size of a rabbit and lived in forests. Later, camels spread to the savanna and increased their size. In Oligocene, 35 million years ago, Poebrotherium had the size of a roe deer, but already resembled a camel.
Between 24 and 12 million years ago, various types of camels evolved. Stenomylus was a gazelle like camel. Alticamelus, which lived 10 to 2 million years ago, had a long neck similar to a giraffe ones. Procamelus, just 1.2 m tall (like a modern llama) evolved in the Camelus genus (to which modern camels belong). Camelus passed from North America in Asia through Behringia 2-3 million years ago. 2 million years ago, the ancestors of lama and vicugna passed into the Andes coming from North America. The last camel surviving the cradle of the camel evolution, North America, was Camelops hesternus, which disappeared 12-10,000 years ago together with the whole megafauna of North America (mammoths, mastodons, giant sloth and saber toothed cats).
In 2005, scientists discovered in Syria a fossil dromadery species twice the size of the modern species.
Ping to read later
Stories like this are so useless without pictures. Every reader would like to see the damn thing, or at least have a description. From the story:
"The camel is very small in comparison with the normal camel,"
Very small? Can they give us a range at least? Is it tiny like a hamster, or very small like a pony?
Is it so hard for reporters to at least tell us what the hell they are talking about?
I hate the media.
Oh, and I did a news search before posting, and all the news stories has the same useless (non)description.
You want to see a picture of a tiny camel bone?
I found the remains of a camel but it appeared to have broken down into a fine leafy substance where is was partially burned. No bones about it even if it was a butt.
I couldn’t find a thing either tho my hunch is after what I did see, it’s somewhere between the size of a rabbit and a llama.
Hell yes! That is what the story is about!
Well that certainly narrows it down.
Rabbit size = Tiny camel (I mean crazy tiny.)
Llama size = Small camel (and not really a huge news story.)
Norm, I hope you know I am whining about the reporting, and not the freeper who posted it!
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