Workers digging a hole for an ornamental citrus tree found the bones of two (juvenile and infant) animals that may have lived about 10,000 years ago.
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Studies on the Rancho La Brea Camelops hesternus fossils further reveal that rather than being limited to grazing, this species likely ate mixed species of plants, including coarse shrubs growing in coastal southern California.
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The Walmart "camel" is the fossil of a prehistoric mammal, originally thought to be a camel found at a Walmart construction site in Mesa, Arizona in 2007.
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