The Unexpectedly Arctic Origins of Our Favorite Desert Companion!

What do camels have to do with globalization, and the arctic? Probably not what you think! The adaptations that made camels our ideal desert companions didn’t start in the sand.

Close your eyes and picture a camel. Where did you picture it? In the heat of the desert? Perhaps in front of the pyramids? Chances are, you didn’t think of them on the frozen arctic tundra! But that’s exactly where you would have found the ancestors of today’s camels, happily calling the frigid north home. And it’s all thanks to those magnificent humps!

By Liesl Ulrich-Verderber

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