Wal-Mart camel

Wal-Mart camel

The Wal-Mart camel is the bone fossil of a prehistoric camel ("Camelops" sp.) found at a future Wal-Mart store in Mesa, Arizona in 2007. Workers digging a hole for an ornamental citrus tree found the bones of a camel that lived 10,000 years ago. Arizona State University geology museum curator Brad Archer calls it an important find and extremely rare.Fact|date=June 2008 Wal-Mart officials and Greenfield Citrus Nursery owner John Babiarz agreed that the bones will go directly on display in a museum at Arizona State University. Camels lived in what is now Arizona until about 8,000 years ago. [ [http://edition.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/04/28/prehistoric.camel.ap/index.html?eref=rss_topstories Bones of prehistoric camel found at Wal-Mart site, 1058 GMT (1858 HKT), April 28, 2007] ]

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External links

*http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/117088
*http://www.azcentral.com/community/gilbert/articles/2008/05/21/20080521gr-fossil0521-ON.html


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