Camels in Oregon? Rhinos in Arctic?
So, let us consider and reconsider what we thought we knew and how it no longer works...
This High Arctic rhino may change what we know about ancient animal migrations:
Researchers from the Canadian Museum of Nature (CMN) have identified a new species of rhino that once roamed Canada's High Arctic 23 million years ago.
The extinct rhinoceros, described in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, is the northernmost rhino known to have ever walked the planet — and it's already reshaping scientists' understanding of when many ancient animals spread across the continents.
link: https://www.npr.org/2025/12/04/nx-s1-5630889/high-arctic-rhino-hornless-canada-land-bridge
Camels in Oregon?
Oregon archaeologists have found evidence of human occupation in the state that dates back more than 18,000 years. University of Oregon students and faculty working at the Rimrock Draw Rockshelter in Harney County found stone tools and fragments of camel and bison teeth beneath a 15,000-year-old layer of volcanic ash. Radiocarbon dating of the tooth enamel revealed that the fragments were 18,250 years old. Due to their position in the ash, the tools are thought to be even older — making them some of the oldest evidence of human civilization in North America.

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