Because soft tissues are generally not preserved in the fossil record, if Camelops possessed a hump, like modern camels, is not certain, or lacked one, like its modern llama relatives. Because one-humped camels are now known to have evolved from two-humped camels, it would follow that Camelops, if it had humps, probably had two, as this would be the more parsimonious view.[9] C. hesternus was about 2.2 m (7 ft 3 in) tall at the shoulder, making it slightly taller than modern Bactrian camels; it was also slightly heavier, weighing about 800 kg (1,800 lb).[10]