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A small population of introduced camels, Dromedaries and Bactrians, survived in the [[Southwest United States]] until the [[1900s]]. These animals, imported from Turkey, were part of the [[US Camel Corps]] experiment and used as draft animals in mines, and escaped or were released after the project fell through.
According [http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyID=2006-10-06T174855Z_01_L06915082_RTRUKOC_0_US-SYRIA-CAMEL.xml&WTmodLoc=SciNewsHome_C1_%5BFeed%5D-1 Reuters], the recent discovery of a previously unknown giant camel species in central Syria, thought to be 100,000 years old, is leading scientists to reconsider traditional theories of camel origins.
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