17 September 2014
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Wild New World

Broadcast in 2002, Wild New World explores intriguing North American fossil evidence with state of the art computer graphics.

How do we know about the long-extinct animals of ice age North America? Explore the evidence.

North America at the end of the last ice age was vastly different. But what was the ice age like?

Who were the first North American settlers? How and when did they arrive? It's still a hot debate.

What kind of animals lived in North America 14,000 years ago?

What caused the demise of North America's diverse range of Ice Age fauna? There are two main schools of thought on this.

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