"It was the straw that broke the camel's back," according to Denise Kelly who has studied more than 300 pages of legal documents relating to the Fab Four's demise.

In two back-to-back papers published in the journal Ecology, the Kobe University team published that B. subcupularis is pollinated by ants and camel crickets, which visit the plants for their pollen and nectar.

For millions of years, North America was home to a zoo of giants: mammoths and mastodons, camels and dire wolves, sloths the size of elephants and beavers as big as bears.

For them, the desert is home, where they cultivate date palms and raise herds of goats, sheep and camels.

“It is the straw that has broken the camel’s back,” is how one farming source put it to me.