Ice Age Giants

Ice Age Giants is a British television documentary series created by the BBC. The three 60-minute episodes, "Land of the Sabre-tooth", "Land of the Cave-Bear" and "Last of the Giants", were broadcast on BBC Two between 19 May and 2 June 2013.^[1]

Background

Dr. Alice Roberts brings the Ice age and the prehistoric mammals that lived through it to life using the latest scientific knowledge and a little graphic wizardry.

Episodes

1. 'Land of the Sabre-tooth'

UK broadcast 19 May 2013

The Ice Age odyssey begins in the 'land of the sabre-tooth' in North America, a continent that was covered by ice up to two miles thick in some parts. Yet this frozen land boasted the most impressive cast of Ice Age giants in the world.

2. 'Land of the Cave-Bear'

UK broadcast 26 May 2013

The Land of the Cave bear ventures into the areas of the world affected the most by the Ice age - Europe and Siberia. In the mountains of Transylvania, Professor Alice Roberts and her team investigate a cave sealed for thousands of years which shows evidence of a fight to the death between two ice age giants, a cave bear and a cave lion. Animals that would have dwarfed their modern day relatives.

3. 'Last of the Giants'

UK broadcast on 2 June 2013

Despite thousands of years of ice covering the northern hemisphere, many of the great giants of the ice age still walked the earth. Episode three looks at what could have caused mammoths, woolly rhinoceros, sabre-toothed cats, giant ground sloths and glyptodons to finally go extinct.

References

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See also

• Planet Earth
• The Blue Planet
• Frozen Planet