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 ...

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 ...

In the 1880s, a wild menace haunted the Arizona territory. It was known as the Red Ghost, and its legend grew as it roamed the high country. It trampled a woman to death in 1883. It was rumored to ...

Dr Piers Simpkin is camel expert, an academic based in Kenya who has kept his own herd of 75+ camels and has 40 years of ...

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 ...

A retired serviceman who lovingly tended his drippy-nosed camels was almost certainly infected with MERS by one of them, Saudi researchers say in a report that makes the first direct link between ...

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.