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La Brea Tar Pits & Museum @tarpits.org

🐪 Think being stuck in L.A. traffic's a drag? Try getting stuck in its 𝘵𝘢𝘳. Meet 𝘊𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘱𝘴 𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘶𝘴, the Ice Age camel that once roamed North America: bit.ly/AncientCamelLA

Camelops hesternus fossil on display at the La Brea Tar Pits. An illustration of the large-headed llama Hemiauchenia. A Camelops skeleton. An illustration of Camelops hesternus, an extinct North American camel.
sep 2, 2025, 5:11 pm • 32 10

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Suzanne Palmer @zanzjan.bsky.social

somewhere I have a half-finished story that hinged on this critter not going extinct after all...

sep 4, 2025, 8:14 pm • 2 0 • view