Prehistoryczny wielbłąd odnaleziony w Mesa (Arizona)
: 28 kwietnia 2007, o 13:12
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Ancient camel bones found in Arizona
MESA, Ariz., April 28 (UPI) -- The bones of a camel between eight and 10,000-years-old have been unearthed near Phoenix by a construction crew building a new Wal-Mart store.
The find was made in Mesa, Ariz., by nursery owner and hobby-paleontologist John Babiarz, the East Valley (Ariz.) Tribune reported Saturday.
Babiarz was supervising a work detail when the backhoe unearthed teeth, a lower jaw section, a hoof, a humerus, scapula, vertebrae and some rodent bones.
The bones were four feet down in an area known as the Mesa Terrace where the Salt River was located during the Ice Age, said Brad Archer, curator of the R.S. Dietz Geology Museum at Arizona State University.
Archer said the pre-historic camel would have been the size of a small pony and called the bones a unique find for the state.
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