
Ice Age Giants
What finally killed all the woolly rhinos, mammoths, sloths and sabre-toothed cats?

What finally killed all the woolly rhinos, mammoths, sloths and sabre-toothed cats?

Professor Alice Roberts ventures to the areas hit hardest by the cold of the Ice Age.

Professor Alice Roberts is on the trail of Ice Age beasts including the sabre-toothed cat.

The largest of all the sabre tooth cats roamed South America one million years ago.

Three million years ago, Ethiopia was home of the ape-man Australopithecus and the sabre-toothed Dinofelis.

Twenty five million years ago lived the Indricotheres - the largest land mammals of all time.

In the sea, 36 million years ago the most monstrous mammals can be found.

Forty-nine million years ago, the world was heavily forested and birds ruled the planet.

It may come as a surprise that we're living with many of the reptiles that survived the great extinction.

A documentary following the investigation of a 4,000-year-old body found preserved in a bog.

Iain Stewart shows the impact of salt on the existence of ice ages and the preservation of the dead in Egypt.

Iain Stewart discovers how water has played a role in history, including the fall of the Roman Empire.

Fly with a pterosaur on a journey of thousands of miles to his breeding grounds.

Meet the liopleurodon, the biggest of all the carnivores 149 million years ago.

This is the story of one of the largest animals to walk the Earth - the mighty sauropods.

Two hundred and twenty million years ago, one group of reptiles was about to take over the world.

How attention turned from civilization and kings to the search for the common man.

How discoveries in the 18th century overturned ideas of when and where civilization began.

Richard Miles explores how archaeology began by trying to prove a biblical truth.

In the last of the series, Richard Miles examines the rise and fall of the Roman Empire.