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From Thursday's Chronicle Herald:
WHATāS THREE METRES TALL, has a hump and can handle six months of winter like itās a walk on the beach?
A giant Arctic camel, thatās what.
A Dalhousie geologist helped show that some bones found in the High Arctic belonged to a camel that lived there 31/2 million years ago, when Canadaās North looked very different.
In 2008, John Gosse was up to his knees in sand on Ellesmere Island with scientists from the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa.
One of them, Natalia Rybczynski, came running over with a piece of bone in her hand, shouting and excited.
āShe brought it over and said, āI think this is camel.ā And I thought she was joking, because how can a camel get up into the High Arctic?ā said Gosse.
āWell, it turns out that itās not really the camel that is different. Itās the Arctic that was different at that time.ā
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