I think the thing that really blew our minds from the Pliocene is the camel. And this is where the finding of the High Arctic camel is so mind blowing, right? Because it’s not in a desert. It’s living in a complete opposite to a desert.
-NOVA, Hunt for the Oldest DNA, Natalia Rybczynski
I often wondered about the Sahara when it was an inland sea filled by the paleomonsoon. What about the camel in those days, and what about the camel in the High Arctic when it was a humid forest? No need then for the drovers to graze the herd whenever we passed through the Qushsh, what was left of that season’s dry grass.