Weird Camelope Bones Discovered in Utah Confused Scientific Timeline

You know Utah is home to many dinosaur bones and even a mammoth skeleton that gives us the right to name our new hockey team. Did you know there have also been prehistoric camel bones discovered in the beehive state? 

Boys Discovered a Skull They Didn’t Recognize Near Fillmore 

The first camel bone was discovered by some teenagers near Fillmore when they found a skull in a lava tube. It turned out to be an early relative of the camel that lived in North America at the end of the ice age 11,000 years ago. 

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This was a big deal as the timeline had these camels dying out a whole lot earlier than that, like 500,000 years earlier. The skull was lost for a time and when it was rediscovered the carbon dating confirmed the later date. 

North American Camel from the Past 

It is a camel species that ran with the mammoths and is called a camelops. These North American camels were roaming the continent for a long time and died out with the sabercats. Since that discovery, other camel bones have been found around Utah.  

The last was in 1994 in the Oquirrh Mountains by Kennicott employees running a backhoe. They were digging for a water project and found a camel jawbone and some foot bones. 

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It is time Utah claimed these ancient camels. Let’s all agree the next sports team is called the Utah Camelops.