Did you know that camels originated in North America?
Though camels today are most commonly seen padding across sand dunes in the expansive Sahara, their ancestors were small and gazelle-like forest dwellers called Stenomylus hitchcocki. They traveled in herds and grazed in the high plains during the Miocene Epoch, which was 5 to 23 million years ago.
Seen above are Stenomylus hitchcocki on display at Carnegie Museum of Natural History.
