Ice Age Death Trap
Season 39 Episode 5 | 53m 3sVideo has Closed Captions
Experts uncover a site in Colorado packed with fossil mammoths and other extinct beasts.
In the Rocky Mountains, archeologists uncover a unique fossil site packed with astonishingly well-preserved bones of mammoths, mastodons, and other giant extinct beasts. The discovery opens a highly focused window on the vanished world of the Ice Age in North America.
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Ice Age Death Trap
Season 39 Episode 5 | 53m 3sVideo has Closed Captions
In the Rocky Mountains, archeologists uncover a unique fossil site packed with astonishingly well-preserved bones of mammoths, mastodons, and other giant extinct beasts. The discovery opens a highly focused window on the vanished world of the Ice Age in North America.
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