Remains of giant camel discovered in Syria

News Type: Event — Seeded on Sun Oct 8, 2006 3:20 PM EDT

Article Source: alertnet.org

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"Swiss researchers have discovered the 100,000-year-old remains of a previously unknown giant camel species in central Syria."

"The camel's shoulders stood three metres (yards) high and it was around four metres tall, as big as a giraffe or an elephant. Nobody knew that such a species had existed"

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