NOVA · Season 22 · Episode 11

“Mammoths of the Ice Age”

Aired Tuesday 10 January 1995

The subjects of Stone Age Cave paintings thunder onto the screen as NOVA explores Woolly mammoths. Recent discoveries show that the hairy ancestors of Elephants fought off extinction much longer than anyone thought, surviving on an isolated island in the Arctic Ocean until as recently as 4,000 years ago.

S22 E11 discussion