This title covers 10 prehistoric mammals from Arsinoitherium to Woolly Rhino, discussing each mammal's anatomy, behavior, and adaptations.

"Beginning with the earliest days of our lineage some 325 million years ago, Brusatte charts how mammals survived the asteroid that claimed the dinosaurs and made the world their own, becoming the astonishingly diverse range of animals that dominate today's Earth. Brusatte also brings alive the lost worlds mammals inhabited through time, from ice ages to volcanic catastrophes. Entwined in this story is the detective work he and other scientists have...

"From the author of Apocalyptic Planet, an unsparing, vivid, revelatory travelogue through prehistory that traces the arrival of the First People in North America twenty thousand years ago and the artifacts that enable us to imagine their lives and fates. Scientists squabble over the locations and dates for human arrival in the New World. The first explorers were few, encampments fleeting. At some point in time, between twenty and forty thousand years...

Journey through the prehistory of North America - beginning 14,000 years ago when people were first entering this vast continent. Witness ancient beasts, mammoths, and mastadons to see how their successors carry on their legacy.

Episode takes a look at the point in history when mammals began to evolve and how they went on to become some of the smartest creatures on earth.