This trail leads to the cave and the freshly dead bison, just out of reach. Hunger makes the bear risk everything. He falls and joins the bison in its tomb. Now he can eat his fill. but after that there's no way out. ln time he'll be just one more ic...
But their success hasn't gone unnoticed. From many miles away, the short-faced bear can smell blood on the breeze. He sniffs his way towards the source. Meanwhile, satisfied and sleepy, the pride settles down for a snooze. More than twice the weight...
The scene is set for a daily ice age drama. Only the very largest are safe now. Patience is the key, the lionesses close in, waiting for their opportunity. The first charge causes chaos, but this is just what the lions want. ln the melee, they've alr...
And all this meat in one small area attract the scavenger, the short-faced bear. Led by his super sensitive nose, his long limbs carry him many miles a day in search of carrion. He's picked up a scent, but where's the carcass? Sometimes the smaller,...
So let's go back in time, back 13,000 years to relive one day in the life of North America's great ice age plains. It's early morning at the end of a long, hot summer. Even major rivers are beginning to run low. Colombian mammoth herd follows the riv...
Larger than any lion alive today, this would have been an awesome predator. These caves were probably its winter den. With such abundant game down on the plains, this hunter's life must have been pretty good. Sheer size and power and the benefit of l...
13,000 years ago, the ice age cheetah was the pronghorn's greatest enemy. And pronghorn would have needed all their amazing speed. The American cheetah was larger than its African cousin. But it had the same Achilles' heel. A cheetah's high-performan...
A lone wolf weighs as much as four coyotes, but one on one it's still no match for a bison. Wolves, though, live and hunt in packs of up to 15 and when they launch a cooperative attack, they're devastating. First they get the bison on the run, then f...
Because these two bull mammoths both had broken tusks, they could have fought at closer quarters than they would do normally. Twisting and turning, they became locked in a deadly embrace. Even more bizarre, this twist of fate then caused a third fata...