Image: Camelops hesternus

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Description: Skeleton of the extinct western camel (Camelops hesternus) in the foreground, in the George C. Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles, California. Background spotlights have been removed with Photoshop. The western camel stood seven feet tall at the shoulder, similar in size to the living Asian Bactrian camel. An American mastodon (Mammut americanum) mother and child are behind the camel.
Title: Camelops hesternus
Credit: Own work
Author: WolfmanSF
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