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camel

[kam-uhl] / ˈkæm əl /




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Construction of L.A.’s Metro D Line extension in 2017 led to the discovery of camel and possible mammoth fossils.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

Without management, camel populations could double every eight years, South Australia's primary industries department says.

From Barron's ● Jun. 28, 2026

Among the video’s more surreal moments are depictions of Trump riding a camel through the desert, traveling through India on a motorcycle, appearing as an anime-style warrior and sharing tacos with world leaders.

From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2026

It rumbles and undulates across the floor, like a lonely camel enduring across a windswept desert.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

The gangly motion of the camel and the constant rolling of the sands created a feeling like seasickness.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

In the south, most Arabs are Bedouins, mainly Sunni Muslims who descended from nomadic clans that roamed the Negev Desert herding camels and sheep.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

He has used giraffes, hippos, rhinos, camels and zebras, and now has both bisons and elephants at the Great Moscow Circus, which opened during the Soviet era.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

Ortiz and six other spy-saboteurs, “their hands and faces already darkened by the unyielding sun, donned gandouras and turbans—what the famed T.E. Lawrence dubbed ‘Arab kit’—mounted a string of camels and rode south.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

In ancient California, they are believed to have existed alongside other extinct native species, including bison-sized Jefferson’s ground sloths, Columbian mammoths and western camels.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026

Milked mammals include the cow, sheep, goat, horse, reindeer, water buffalo, yak, and Arabian and Bactrian camels.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond


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