PHOENIX — Workers digging at the future site of a Wal-Mart in suburban Mesa have unearthed the bones of a prehistoric camel that’s estimated to be 10,000 years old. Arizona State University ...

The museum uncovered fire hearths and prehistoric camel bones, along with a bone tool and a stone scraper, Shutler wrote. Hoping to find evidence that mammoths, camels and other Pleistocene (ice ...

A skeleton of a prehistoric camel, Camelops hesternus, exhibited at the Royal Alberta Museum. It evolved around 4 million years ago and disappeared some 10,000 years ago. The skeleton is ...

(See camel pictures.) Now that we know camels once lived as far south as Panama, Rincon said, scientists should be better able to piece together the evolution of the two-toed beasts.

In just 30 minutes, they were able to find prehistoric camel and three-toed horse bones in the Mojave Desert. “Historically, paleontologists have returned to locations in the desert where ...

Here are three of the creatures you might've found while wandering across North America in prehistoric times. Officially known as Megalonyx, this giant great sloth would have dwarfed any ancient ...

Illustration of the High Arctic camel on Ellesmere Island during the Pliocene warm period, about three and a half million years ago. Image / Julius Csotonyi Giant camels roamed the Arctic 3.5 ...

If true, it would place human occupation of North America even earlier than archaeologists had thought, coming before the Clovis culture -- a prehistoric ... buried under camel tooth enamel.