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From Thursday's Chronicle Herald:

WHAT鈥橲 THREE METRES TALL, has a hump and can handle six months of winter like it鈥檚 a walk on the beach?

A giant Arctic camel, that鈥檚 what.

A 麻豆传媒 geologist helped show that some bones found in the High Arctic belonged to a camel that lived there 31/2 million years ago, when Canada鈥檚 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.

鈥淪he brought it over and said, 鈥業 think this is camel.鈥� And I thought she was joking, because how can a camel get up into the High Arctic?鈥� said Gosse.

鈥淲ell, it turns out that it鈥檚 not really the camel that is different. It鈥檚 the Arctic that was different at that time.鈥�

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