The genetic code of Camelus bactrianus ferus - a two-humped camel that now numbers less than 900 in the wild - reveals 20,821 genes, many of them providing the metabolic tools to cope with days ...

Recent investigations into the genetic diversity and population dynamics of camels have revealed a complex evolutionary narrative underlying the survival and adaptation of these species across diverse ...

On November 19, 2025 in Inner Mongolia, China, herders launched their month-long winter roundup, driving over 2,000 Bactrian camels from the Badain Jaran and Ulan Buh deserts to warmer grazing areas ...

The range of the wild Bactrian camel (Camelus ferus) has been reduced to only three locations world-wide: two in China (Lop Nuur and Taklamakan desert) and one in Mongolia (Great Gobi A Specially ...

AKTAU, Kazakhstan — In most of the world, camels come in two types: two-humped Bactrian and one-humped dromedary. But nothing is so simple out in the desert of Kazakhstan, where the camels roaming ...

A light-hearted roadside moment unfolded in Zhangye, Gansu, China, when a two-humped Bactrian camel refused to budge from the ...

Humps and hair. That's the scene in Bulgan Soum, a tiny Mongolian town in the middle of the Gobi Desert about 160 miles north of the Chinese border. Bactrian camels arrive in all directions on foot, ...