Domesticated for 3,000 years, camels have been a source of transportation, food, milk and leather since ancient times, but some of the world’s wild camels are now critically endangered. Here are a few ...

Several decades ago, when burning wood was the only means of keeping one's home warm, camels were not an uncommon sight in ...

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San Antonians braved the Saturday morning heat to gather at the Alamo to mark a period of Texas history — not the 1836 battle but of the time that camels roamed the state in service of the U.S. Army.

Aboriginal officials in Australia have approved the killing of up to 10,000 camels as a region battling scorching heat and a long drought deals with animals searching for water. Officials in the ...

New archeological evidence is throwing cold water on the biblical image of Abraham, Jacob and Joseph riding camels through the desert. A team of Israeli archaeologists has studied the oldest-known ...