Wal-Mart camel

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The Wal-Mart camel is the bone fossil of a prehistoric camel (Camelops sp.) found at a future Wal-Mart store in Mesa, Arizona in . Workers digging a hole for an ornamental citrus tree found the bones of a camel that lived 10,000 years ago. Arizona State University geology museum curator Brad Archer calls it an important find and extremely rare.^{[citation needed]} Wal-Mart officials and Greenfield Citrus Nursery owner John Babiarz agreed that the bones will go directly on display in a museum at Arizona State University. Camels lived in what's now Arizona until 8,000 years ago.^[1]