Camels in the American Life in Prehistoric Times

Camels are strange new species found in Panama. Strangeness is due to the size of the long jaws like a crocodile, and his size is smaller than modern camels.

Proclaimed National Geographic, scientists dig up small fragments of fossils in the paleontological sites Las Cascadas, between 2008 and 2011 earlier. In the laboratory, Aldo Rincon, who led the study those pieces up and realize that it is a jaw.

Together with his team, who have graduated from Rincon palontology vertebrates at the University of Florida describes two small new species of prehistoric camel. Latin name Aguascalietia panamaensis and Aguascalientia minuta, both up the tropical plains of Central America at 20 million years ago.

Both of these prehistoric animals have a long jaw, resembling a crocodile, and it seems specifically designed to find the fruit and foliage on a bushy plant. The teeth are short and sharp, indicating that the animal's body features foraging by probing the trees, rather than grazing.

Based on these fossils, Rincon and his team estimated the smallest camel between them, namely Aguascalietia minuta has a height of approximately two feet or 60 centimeters. While Aguascalietia panamaensis measuring approximately 2.5 feet high or 80 inches.

Although most of the modern-day camels are found only in Africa and the Middle Eastern desert, and one in Asia, through research, published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology be aware that this is a lot of mammals that live in the United States at approximately 35 to 40 million years ago .