Syria: Giant Camel Update - Scientists find more 100,000-year-old bones

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Syria: Giant Camel Update - Scientists find more 100,000-year-old bones

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Hunters stalked giant camels as tall as some modern-day elephants in the Syrian desert tens of thousands of years ago and archaeologists behind the find are wondering where the camels came from and what caused them to die off.

...The animal, branded the "Syrian Camel" by its Swiss and Syrian discoverers, stood between three and four yards high - about twice the size of latter-day camels and the height at the shoulder of many African elephants.

[Link includes last Friday's report ""Remains of giant 100,000-year-old camel discovered in Syria"]