The Last Giants: Tracking the Ice Age Extinction | Full Documentary

The human foot prints in the White Sands in USA shows humans in south USA over 21,000 years ago. you are using the time line from the 1960s. Your time line is off.

There were so many mammoths back then. There weren't enough people on earth to chase them all around the globe and end them so quickly.

Imagine doing a voiceover with the same volume as the original audio

Chilling to see these fossils! A world that once existed and then vanished into ice… This documentary is truly fascinating

Enjoyed this very much, thank you 😊

Why does man always have to be the bad guy

Climate change is the greatest thing to ever happen for humanity.

This documentary might have been relevant in the 1960's.

Why is it always say what the end cause was. There is evidence that a supervolcano in Italy went off about the time the Neanderthals became extinct. Too many variables to make claims to what the end of the megafauna was. Populations were too small to overhunt. A big contributor in history has been loss of habitat. but instead of pointing at 1 definitive cause, take into consideration all the possible causes and we may find the answer.

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very interesting, but u telling me you found that tusk as soon as u got to the beach, and it was so clean 😄😄🤔🤔

Everyone focuses on the mega fauna in North America and apparently forget that there were even more mammoth in Siberia, I would venture to say the same event killed them.

I noted that most of the mammoths in the Slovenian boneyard were juveniles. Wouldn't this imply that the early hunters targeted the young? If so, perhaps the megafauna died out not due to the hunting of adults but due to few newborns surviving to reproduce?

Grandpa used talk of the days hunting the last mammoths. Then processing them to movable parts and trading with the farmer dudes down south in Mesopotamia for BEER.

Wonderful and informative natural documentary ...

Seriously FIX THE TRANSLATION VOICEOVER VOLUME! Translations are quite often at the same volume as the original language so you can't decipher between the two. I would much prefer subtitles together with the original audio.

The claim that human hunting alone caused the extinction of North America's mammoths, cave bears, giant sloths, saber-tooth cats, and other megafauna is greatly mistaken—chiefly because human populations at the end of the last glacial period were extremely small and ecologically scattered, making such sweeping impacts implausible. Multiple lines of evidence challenge the simplistic "overkill" hypothesis presented in many documentaries.​ Human Populations Were Too Small At the time of the megafauna extinctions—generally between 13,000 and 10,000 years ago—human populations in North America were tiny, consisting of dispersed bands of hunter-gatherers. Archaeological and genetic evidence suggest that although humans may have arrived in North America up to 23,000 years ago, widespread and sustained human occupation did not appear until a period of abrupt climate warming much later, when these populations only became "visible" in the archaeological record due to population increase. The notion that such small, low-density groups could hunt multiple enormous species to extinction across a continent is highly doubtful.​ Overkill Hypothesis Lacks Archaeological Support The so-called "overkill" or "blitzkrieg" theory is based on some archaeological sites where large animal bones show cut marks, but these are rare exceptions rather than evidence of systematic continent-wide slaughter. Analysis via optimal foraging theory demonstrates that the energy cost of continually hunting massive, dangerous animals like mammoths would have been prohibitive for small human groups, making specialization on such prey unlikely. Moreover, mammoth and megafauna remains continue to appear in the archaeological record well into periods of human coexistence, suggesting hunting was opportunistic rather than the primary driver of extinction.​ Climate Change and Environmental Stress Were Key Strong paleontological evidence points to dramatic climate shifts, habitat changes, and ecological stress as the main drivers of megafauna extinctions, not human predation. During the Pleistocene-Holocene transition, rapid warming and the retreat of ice sheets led to radical changes in vegetation and ecosystems, reducing food availability and fragmenting habitats for large animals. Such environmental changes—notably without mass megafauna extinctions during previous, less severe climate swings—better explain the pattern and rapidity of species losses.​ Comparison with Eurasia and Lack of Synchronous Extinction Elsewhere Mammoths and other megafauna survived thousands of years of co-existence with humans in Eurasia without going extinct until climate and environmental pressures intensified. If human hunting alone were effective enough for rapid extermination, such extinctions would be expected on all continents immediately following human arrival, which is not observed. Furthermore, many animal populations increased long after initial human contact, showing that these species could coexist with humans under stable environmental conditions.​

Amazing.thanks for upload ❤

The computer generated animals are surprisingly well done in this.

When did you last update your information? I believe your scientists need to update for this presentation 🙀.