"It suggests that many of the adaptations that we currently think of, in terms of camels being adapted to warm desert-like environments, could have actually originated through adaptation to quite the opposite extreme... cold, harsh environments, " he explained.

BBC: Giant camel fossil found in Arctic

It's not a sexy image, unless you've spent a month in the desert alone with a herd of camels, but it's still considered too explosive for Kuwaitis to handle.

CNN: Nicholas Kristof: Running for the exits

This book fascinatingly weaves in the history of dogsledding (dogs were to this region what camels are to the desert), the native populations and the impact of the 1890s Gold Rush on them.

FORBES: Going To The Dogs