The Federal Highway Administration has amended its regulation on truck size and weight to include within the definition of “specialized equipment” dromedary-equipped truck tractor-semitrailer ...

Dromedaries have been used for transportation for over 3,000 years. But it was not known where they were first domesticated or which genetic structure was selected in the process. A team of ...

There are two species of camel: the Bactrian camel (Camelus bactrianus) and the dromedary camel (Camelus dromedarius). About 90% of the world’s camels are dromedary camels, also known as the Arabian ...

AL-AHSA, Saudi Arabia, May 13 (UPI) --Arabian camels, or dromedary camels -- the single-humped species Camelus dromedarius-- have been essential the development of desert societies in Africa and the ...

Picture this. I’m at the edge of a small town situated on the western side of the Dashte Kabir, Iran’s great desert. A fog rests on the ground. It’s toward the end of the day, 40 years ago. I’m on my ...

A male dromedary camel calf was born at the Wildlife Conservation Society’s (WCS) Bronx Zoo. Photo by: Julis Larsen Maher/WCS. The dromedary camel (Camelus dromedarius) is the world’s largest camel.

Among the mysteries Rudyard Kipling explores in his Just So stories, is how the camel got its hump. Or should that be humps? "He ate sticks and thorns and tamarisks and milkweed and prickles, most ...

Fossils can be astonishingly beautiful testaments of evolution and prehistoric time. There are few things I like better than wandering a museum’s fossil hall, admiring the skeletal architecture of a ...