[afraidfortherepublic]

Well, I know about the tiny pre-horses from the paleontology department of UC Berkeley, but I don’t remember any native camels. I don’t consider the tiny pre-horses to be “horses”. I just wonder if there were a recent article on these finds.

[allmendream]

Well they were certainly horses in every sense of the word other than that you couldn't ride them! They were as much horses as the American Lion was a lion, and the American camel was a camel, and the American mastodon was a mastodon. And more so than the 'New World' vulture is an actual vulture (they look similar due to being carrion eaters - but are not actually closely related). Mini - horses are still horses - just mini!

[allmendream]

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/story?id=5310720&page=1

Apparently the camel was an American native - and modern day camels descended from camels that came from America.