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Ancient Camels [1]
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Date: 2025-07-03
Welcome to the Street Prophets Coffee Hour cleverly hidden at the intersection of religion, art, science, food, and politics. This is an open thread where we can share our thoughts and comments about the day. Let’s look at some ancient camels.
Among the best-known fossil sites in the world is Rancho La Brea (more commonly known as La Brea Tar Pits) in Los Angeles, California. Starting about 40,000 years ago, asphalt seeps trapped animals and insects. The bones of the animals trapped in the seeps were impregnated with asphalt, thus preserving them for study by today’s paleontologists. More than 10,000 individual animals from 565 species have been recovered from the site. Among the mammals found at La Brea are camels.
Camels originated in North America about 45 million years ago and later migrated to Asia, Africa, and South America. This display shows Yesterday’s Camel (Camelops hesternus), the larger of the two species of camel found at La Brea. This camel had a single hump. Yesterday’s Camel is more closely related to living llamas.
Shown above is the skull of Camelops hesternus
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