Comments on: Giant Camel Discovered

By: drypondscout

drypondscout — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 04:14:08 +0000

Is it possible however that some camels may have a throwback to the earlier camels? Lawrence of Arabia had a a large female camel much admired by his followers. A “Ghazalian” camel that others of its same origin were known to outpace and outdistance “finer” camels of the entire Arabian and Saharian region.

By: crypto_randz

crypto_randz — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 00:04:23 +0000

From my readings and studies on the mammoths as of today there have been many reports from hunters that claim the whooly mammoth still roams the outer reaches of many inner regions of siberia and hunters have heard roars from what sounds like mammoth. I do many researches about the whooly mammoth.

By: Rillo777

Rillo777 — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 15:10:47 +0000

I remember reading that one of the things pointed out as a “biblical inaccuracy” is that camels weren’t used far back in old testament times, so then these stories must have been written later. Frankly, I believe the Bible, so accounts of modern cryptids make more sense to me. It seems reasonable that they could survive. I know not everyone shares that viewpoint and I’m not pushing any religious views here, but that camels are quite ancient in that part of the world is encouraging to me.

By: Sky King

Sky King — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 02:03:37 +0000

“iirc, didn’t the camel family originate in North America?”

Well, the camel family did, around 40 million years ago, it’s said, so I guess we can say that the first camels were in the Americas. There’s no known survivors of those north of the Isthmus of Panama, however.

They were re-introduced as pack animals in the Old West, circa 1855. I often wonder if some didn’t survive well into the 20th century here.

“Here” meaning the American Southwest, I mean… sure would like to see some ambling across the Taos Plateau. I’d love to ride one into the Sangres. In the summer, I mean…

By: U.T. Raptor

U.T. Raptor — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 00:06:05 +0000

“He also said the Syrian desert “is the first origin of the camel.””

iirc, didn’t the camel family originate in North America?

By: kittenz

kittenz — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 21:32:34 +0000

I’ve been following this and I haven’t seen anything proposing that this animal still exists.

By: flame821

flame821 — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 19:38:47 +0000

I have to agree with Sky King. It would be like finding a living Mammoth or Mastadon in Siberia. It is ‘possible’ but very, very unlikely.

I am interested to see if they have any viable DNA to see if this is a separate species or if our modern camels are directly descended from these giants.

As for the time delay, Lucy’s sister/child was unearthed several years ago and the reports have only just hit the Main Stream Media; it is better to be sure of what you have than to have to muck about in unknowns (like homo florensis seems to be doing).

By: Sky King

Sky King — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 18:00:15 +0000

“It could be possible that some of these large camels may still roam in SYRIA.”

Hard to deny that it “could be possible”, but they’d be kinda hard to miss.

By: planettom

planettom — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 15:43:55 +0000

One hump or two? Interesting find! That’s pretty darn big/tall for a camel.

By: lastensugle

lastensugle — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 15:38:37 +0000

Imagine riding this beast, I’m gettin seasick just thinking about it. A really amazing find, though I believe any surviving camels this size would have been known by now. Anyone know if this was a seperate species, or if camels just got smaller gradually until becoming the size they are today?