During the last Ice Age, millions of large animals roamed the Earth, from wooly mammoths and giant sloths to cave lions and saber-toothed cats. But as the temperatures rose, three-quarters of these species died out. What happened? Can environmental changes alone really explain this mass extinction, or did humans - who at this very time were beginning their conquest of the planet - play a key role? To find out, researchers around the world are hunting and studying fossils in their search for answers to solve the mystery of the Ice Age giants.

Cave paintings and lunar calendars exist in the caves and remains of prehistoric hunters studied rec...

Woolly Mammoth: Secrets from the Ice is a documentary presented by English anatomist Dr. Alice Rober...

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One of the most significant cases in European archaeology is the grave of the shaman woman of Bad Dü...

This series incorporates the latest animated 3D films to explore recent discoveries about human hist...

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Gary Owens needs more dinosaurs and sends Eric Boardman on the ultimate dinosaur safari to find them...

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The Channeled Scablands in Washington state defied conventional explanations for their formation for...

A closer look at the science of Human evolution, and how much early humans might've contributed to t...

A well-preserved mammoth carcass is found in the remote New Siberian Islands in the Arctic Ocean, op...

This documentary delves into the mysteries surrounding the Neanderthals and what their fossil record...

In 1921, in the Danish town of Egtved, on the Jutland peninsula, was discovered one of the most impo...

A documentary examining what the Tyrannosaurus Rex was really like - both appearance and behaviour -...

Werner Herzog gains exclusive access to film inside the Chauvet caves of Southern France, capturing ...

Sir David Attenborough investigates the discovery of a lifetime: the giant skull of a prehistoric se...

The Mandrin Cave in the Rhône Valley is a fascinating excavation site. Archaeologist Ludovic Slimak ...