Ice Age Giants

Episode 1

Land of the Sabre-Tooth

51 mins

Alice's journey in search of prehistoric animals begins in the Americas, a continent which, in the Ice Age, was home to the sabre-tooth tiger, a distant relative of modern big cats with knifelike teeth, the ground sloth, a lumbering, behemoth of a creature with seven-inch claws, the giant Colombian mammoth and the glyptodont, a creature resembling a giant armadillo.

Episode 2

Land of the Cave Bear

49 mins

High in the mountains of Transylvania, a cave sealed for thousands of years reveals grisly evidence for a fight to the death between two starving giants, a cave bear and a cave lion. These animals, which would dwarf their modern-day relatives, were probably driven into conflict by the pressure on food supplies as the Ice Age gathered pace.

Episode 3

Last of the Giants

51 mins

Astonishingly, even after thousands of years of ice crushing the northern hemisphere and temperatures of 20 degrees lower than those of today, many of the great giants of the ice age still walked the earth. It was only when the world had warmed up again that mammoths, woolly rhinos, sabre-toothed cats, giant ground sloths and glyptodonts finally became extinct. Alice sets off on her last voyage back to the ice age to discover why.

Episode 4

Land of the Woolly Giraffe

Episode 5

Flying of the Crested Macaw