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...
A documentary about the 1999 discovery of a Mastodon skeleton in a Hyde Park backyard.

In a race against developers in the Rocky Mountains, paleontologists uncover a unique fossil site pa...

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

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

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

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...

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

In 1872, in the cave of Cavillon in Monaco, archaeologist Émile Rivière (1835-1922) unearthed an app...

We immerse ourselves in a quest for the origins of Art, among the very first modern humans. The preh...

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

Neandertal man disappeared abruptly 30,000 years ago. Who was that "other" man and what is the most ...