| Summary: | "We're trying to imagine what it was like to be the very first people to arrive on the continent almost 14,000 years ago," explains series producer, Miles Barton. This is the first attempt in television to discover the landscape and wildlife of America after the last Ice Age. The series features amazing re-animations of such animals as the sabre-toothed tiger and woolly mammoth and, using computer graphics, returns lions, cheetahs and zebras to North America where they lived thousands of years ago. This look at the past provides a unique perspective on North American wildlife of today, including those creatures who now depend upon people and cities for their survival. Thousands of years ago, the first people to visit Florida were not greeted by holiday theme parks but by giant ground-sloths with fearsome claws, and armoured glyptodonts, the size of a small car. And did the most notorious prehistoric predator of all, the sabre-tooth cat, finally meet its match in a skunk? This dramatic new series reveals the spectacular wildlife of Ice Age North America, as the first people to enter this vast continent would have seen it. Evidence uncovered from today's landscapes is used to build a picture of the prehistoric past.
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