• Question: Are camels related to horses?

    Asked by cfinn09 to Asif, Laura, Lena, Sean, Viv on 16 Mar 2012. This question was also asked by gosborne09.
    • Photo: Sean Murphy

      Sean Murphy answered on 16 Mar 2012:

      To some degree yes, all living things are related if you go back enough in evolutionary time. However, horses and camels are not especially closely related; rhinos are more closely related to horses, and deer are more closely related to camels.

    • Photo: Lena Ciric

      Lena Ciric answered on 17 Mar 2012:

      The camels’ closest living relatives are llamas and alpacas.

      There is an ancestor of the camel called Camelops that lived in North America until about 10 000 years ago. Have a look at the picture:

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