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Ice Age Giants is a British television documentary series created and produced by BBC Natural History Unit, first shown in the UK on BBC Two and BBC Two HD on 19 May 2013. . The series steps back to 20,000 years in time and follows the trail of the prehistoric mammals in the ice age on North America and European region that lived through it to life by using the latest scientific knowledge and ...
Walking with Cavemen is a 2003 four-part nature documentary television miniseries produced by the BBC Science Unit, [4] the Discovery Channel and ProSieben. [5] Walking with Cavemen explores human evolution, showcasing various extinct hominin species and their inferred behaviours and social dynamics.
This is a partial list of dinosaur finds in the United Kingdom, arranged by genus alphabetically. List of dinosaurs Genus Picture Period Discovery locations and dates Acanthopholis Cretaceous (late) Folkestone, Kent in c. 1865 Gault, Kent in 2000 Altispinax Cretaceous (early) Battle, East Sussex in 1856 Anoplosaurus Cretaceous (early) Cambridgeshire, no later than 1878 Aristosuchus Cretaceous ...
Pages in category "BBC television documentaries about prehistoric and ancient history" The following 32 pages are in this category, out of 32 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Monsters We Met is a documentary produced by the BBC that later aired as a special on Animal Planet in 2004 (under the title, Land of Lost Monsters) which also included footage from Walking with Beasts and Walking with Cavemen (both also made by the BBC).
Walking with Dinosaurs was the brainchild of Tim Haines, who came with the idea in 1996 while he was working as a science television producer at the BBC. [1] Then-head of BBC Science Jana Bennett had at the time started a policy of encouraging producers to pitch possible future landmark series, with the goal of increasing the science output of the BBC and raising the bar of science programming.
By around 20,000 BP the climate was so cold, with much of Britain under ice and the rest a polar desert, so that little life could survive, and the glacial fauna also went extinct. The climate began to warm again around 11,700 BP, entering the present climatic period known as the Holocene. Animals repopulated Britain and Ireland.
There is evidence from animal bones and flint tools found in coastal deposits near Happisburgh in Norfolk that early humans were present in Britain over 800,000 years ago. [8] The archaeological site at Happisburgh lies underneath glacial sediments from the Anglian glaciation of 450,000 years ago. [ 9 ]