Ice Age Death Trap

Ice Age Death Trap

Uncovering mammoths, mastodons, and other vanished beasts

2012•54m•9.0/10

Documentary

Ratings

🎬TMDb

9.0/10(1)

In a race against developers in the Rocky Mountains, paleontologists uncover a unique fossil site packed with astonishingly well-preserved bones of mammoths, mastodons, and other giant extinct beasts. The discovery opens a highly focused window on the vanished world of the Ice Age in North America.

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EN

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Lance Lewman

Lance Lewman

Narrator

Kirk Johnson

Kirk Johnson

Himself - Denver Museum of Nature & Science

Daniel Fisher

Himself - University of Michigan

Ian Miller

Himself - Denver Museum of Nature & Science

Joseph Sertich

Himself - Vertebrate Paleontologist

Eugene Schweig

Himself - United States Geological Survey

Richard Stucky

Himself - Denver Museum of Nature & Science

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