Not only Giant Beavers lived in Canada - Giant ancient camels once lived in Canada’s high Arctic.

Not only Giant Beavers lived in Canada - Giant ancient camels once lived in Canada’s high Arctic.(Yahoo).Using genetic samples from this collagen, it took a group of Canadian and British scientists three years to figure out what animal the bone fragments belonged to.

Molecular palaeontologist Mike Buckley, who works at the University of Manchester, UK, used 'collagen fingerprinting' to examine the samples, and determined that they were nearly identical to samples taken from camel remains found previously in the Yukon. Furthermore, they found that the samples from both camels matched those of the genetic line of camels that originated in North America, crossed the land-bridge across the Bering Sea and into Asia, between seven and eight million years ago.

Piecing together all the fragments, they suggested that the camel was about 30 per cent larger than camels today, roughly 2.7 metres tall and around 900 kilograms.Read the full story here.