Last of the Giants / BBC Worldwide Ltd.
Professor Alice Roberts journeys 40,000 years back in time on the trail of the great beasts of the ice age. She learns the moving story of a mother mastodon; from her tusks, scientists can tell how many calves she had and whether they reached adulthood. This evidence, together with harrowing injurie...
| Uniform Title: | Films on Demand.
Ice age giants. |
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| Language: | English |
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New York, N.Y. :
Infobase,
[2014], ©2013.
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| Series: | Films on Demand.
Ice age giants. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (52 min.)) : sound, color. |
| Format: | Electronic Video |
| Summary: |
Professor Alice Roberts journeys 40,000 years back in time on the trail of the great beasts of the ice age. She learns the moving story of a mother mastodon; from her tusks, scientists can tell how many calves she had and whether they reached adulthood. This evidence, together with harrowing injuries on other skeletons, tells a perplexing story of a species on the edge of extinction - mastodons were turning on mastodons.The woolly rhino tells another story. Believe it or not, the one thing it couldn't stand was snow - which stopped it from getting enough grass. During the ice age in Europe and Siberia, snow was thin on the ground as so much water was locked up in the ice sheets. But when the ice ended, the snows increased, rhinos found themselves stuck and their little legs were unable to get them out of trouble. |
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| Note: | Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on April 24, 2014. Films on Demand is distributed by Infobase for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware. Electronic resource. |
| Interest Grade Level: |
7 & up. |
| System Details: | Mode of access: Internet. System requirements: FOD playback platform. |
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Title from distributor's description. |