SYDNEY: The skeleton of a camel that lived in the 17th century during the second Ottoman-Habsburg war has been discovered in a refuse pit in Austria.
The animal would have been somewhat of an “alien” along the Danube River in Tulln, Austria, the researchers said, calling it a “sunken ship in the desert.”
“Camels are alien species in Europe and Austria, the town of Tulln is closely situated to the large river/stream of the Danube,” said Alfred Galik, a researcher at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna and one of the scientists who worked on the study detailing the discovery. The “sunken ship” phrase “should bring together this buried/sunken ship of the desert — with Tulln and the Danube a place where no camels naturally appear,” Galik told Live Science in an email.
And rather than a beast of burden, this camel was likely a valuable riding animal, as the researchers found no clear signs of arthritis on the camel’s bones. Rather, symmetrical marks on the shoulder blades and parts of the humerus bones likely resulted from the stress of a rider getting on and off of the camel.
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