I wonder. . . were they ridden by giant freakin' jockeys? Hmmm.

Cheers,
Dave at Garfield Ridge

I know I wouldn't want one as a pet - the CamelChow™ bill would be a wallet buster...

Must have been very difficult for pre-historic Arabs to have sex with them.

Also, would it be safe to say that these giant freakin' camels had giant freakin' camel toes?

I don't know about toes, but the farm freaks in Enumclaw WA are hoping someone will Jurassic Park clone them.

I don't know about toes, but the farm freaks in Enumclaw WA are hoping someone will Jurassic Park clone them.

And bestiality is legal in Washington State. Coincidence? I think not.

I wonder how far they could spit?

I think the volume would concern me more than distance. A bucket of camel spit in your face could ruin your whole day...

Giant freakin' camels.
Now that's a phrase one just doesn't hear often enough these days.

Which is why I make Ace of Spades a part of my healthy breakfast every morning.

There's also - Attack of the Mutant Camels game.

Mutant Camels -- now that's a scary thought...

A bucket of camel spit in your face could ruin your whole day...

Yeah, but the pheremones it contains makes you very very atttractive to giant lady camels. Think of the possibilities!

There'll be wet dreams all over the desert tonight.

Some years ago, to cement a deal with an Arab Prince, I was invited to come along on a trip down one of the ancient silk trails in the far regions of what was once Persia. One night, with the caravans stopped and the campfire warming against the cool desert night, our Gypsy hosts began swapping stories. When it was the Prince’s turn, he told us the tale that had been passed down his family for generations. As he began to speak I could almost see the giant camels come to life under the midnight stars. Giant hulking beasts with humps like mountains, he said, and capable of six months without water.

The next day we took in a few tourist sites including one I will never forget. For the price of 1000 rials or a pack of American cigarettes, one could gain admission to the world’s only known example of petrified giant camel dung. Quite an example it was too, reaching almost as tall as me. At this point the imagination took over of course and I could almost feel the tremors of the earth as the giant creatures passed by, or the shock involved when a pile as large as that one stuck ground from such a height.

From that moment on, I never again questioned why Arabs pray five times a day and so many elect to wear towels on their heads to this day.

What exactly is it that Giant Camels eat anyway? Aside from store bought CamelChow that is.

Haunches of raw human? Birds snatched in flight? Whole palm trees?

Boy oh boy, I really bet they could hump!

(/sorry)

Plankton.

Giant Sea Camels?

On a related note, camels have 3 eyelids. Damn my mind is full of useless crap.

Nothing more disconcerting than a giant camel toe.
Actual pictures of excavated toe, mammoth camel to the left, "normal" camel to the right.

Maybe they weren't really "giant" after all. Maybe they just had monster MoDo style flipper feet?

Vid clip of Camel spider waxing a scorpion. Not exactly a camel, but its a cool vid anyway and they are "camel-somethings"....

QT, .mov format though, so you'll need Quicktime.

Camel spiders are Giant. Freaking. Spiders.

Gee thanks, Purp, that wasn't the least bit nightmarish.

Still, anything that macks down on scorpions like that is ok in my book.

Big camels and at one time that had realy big birds like the DIATYRMA a realy big bird stood taller the a man had the head the size of a horse and it was carinierous