Amazing Discovery
by Barb Dacks
University of Calgary scientists have documented the firstfootprints of the prehistoric North American camel ever found onCanadian soil. Nearby, they have identified barrel-sized tracks of woolly mammoth, fragile preserved bones of extinct bootherium muskoxen, pony-sized North American horses, and giant bison, plus the earliest evidence in Alberta of the human hunters who shared their environment over 11, 000 years ago.
This article has been reprinted with kind permission from Legacy, Alberta's Cultural Heritage Magazine, and the author.
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