"Military Camel Skeleton?" Topic
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 Editor in Chief Bill   | 09 Apr 2015 10:30 a.m. PST |
The skeleton of a camel that lived in the 17th century during the second Ottoman-Habsburg war has been discovered in a refuse pit in Austria.The animal would have been somewhat of an "alien" along the Danube River in Tulln, Austria, the researchers said, calling it a "sunken ship in the desert." "Camels are alien species in Europe and Austria, [and] the town of Tulln is closely situated to the large river/stream of the Danube," said Alfred Galik, a researcher at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna and one of the scientists who worked on the study detailing the discovery. The "sunken ship" phrase "should bring together this buried/sunken ship of the desert — with Tulln and the Danube a place where no camels naturally appear," Galik told Live Science in an email… link |
| Prince Alberts Revenge | 09 Apr 2015 10:57 a.m. PST |
Saw this last week. Very interesting, makes you wonder how it ended up in the basement. |
| The Last Conformist | 10 Apr 2015 8:48 a.m. PST |
Well, where would you keep a camel skeleton? |
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