"Ice Age Giants"

[Joe Duxbury]

There's an article in the 'Weekend' magazine that accompanies a daily paper, by Dr Alice. She's advertising her forthcoming BBC2 series "Ice Age Giants", which starts on Sunday 19 May, at 8 pm.
For the second episode, she 'descended into the depths of a cave' in the Apuseni Mountains of Romania to film evidence of the presence of cave bears.
Could be interesting.

 

[rhychydwr1]

Pestera Cioclovina, been there.

 

[mikem]

The first show includes coprolites of Shasta Ground Sloth in a cave in the Grand Canyon (between sabre-tooth cats and Columbian Mammoths in the La Brea Tar Pits):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p018cbd4/Ice_Age_Giants_Land_of_the_Sabretooth/

& she's a Professor now apparently...

Mike

 

[mikem]

More caving in part 2:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p018cc8p/Ice_Age_Giants_Land_of_the_CaveBear/

Mike

 

[Amy]

'not available in your region' - but I'm curious, anything from the Binkley cave system in Indiana, USA? they have found lots of fossils from the ice age in there (like, over a hundred). Lots of skulls from some extinct pig species...bear...other various ice age animals.

 

[graham]

'not available in your region' - but I'm curious, anything from the Binkley cave system in Indiana, USA? they have found lots of fossils from the ice age in there (like, over a hundred). Lots of skulls from some extinct pig species...bear...other various ice age animals.

Nothing mentioned, but it would take more than a couple of programmes to cover every Pleistocene cave site & the La Brea Tar Pits collection takes a lot of beating, for both quality and quantity.

 

[mikem]

Series is being repeated again, part 2 available on iplayer at moment.

Mike