Camels are an important part of the history and culture of the Middle East. They're also very popular with many of the 1 million tourists visiting Qatar for the World Cup. MARTÍNEZ: One camel tour ...

Giant camels used to roam what’s now Los Angeles. If you visit the city’s La Brea asphalt seeps, you can see their bones, reconstructed into a massive skeleton gleaming beneath the museum lights.

Imagine you are traveling through the Nefud Desert in northern Saudi Arabia, around 12,000 years ago. Your journey is difficult. The sand dunes are shifting at your feet; the wind is whipping at your ...

Somalia is known as the Land of Camels because it has one of the largest camel populations in the world and camels play a ...

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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.

MARTÍNEZ: One camel tour guide told the Associated Press he normally gives about 20 rides a day, 50 on the weekends. With the World Cup, he's now giving 500 each morning, 500 more in the afternoons.