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Fanged camel named from a century-old museum collection

Publishing venue for the camel monograph

For decades, cabinets at the American Museum of Natural History held camel skulls labeled with a name nobody had ever formally published: "Machairocamelus," the knife camel. A monograph uploaded in November 2026 gave the animal a real name, Vampyrocamelus welshi, and a place in an extinct lineage of long-necked, lanky camels.

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