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

Nature and animals

This documentary follows paleontologist Dick Mol on the hunt for clues to the mass extinction during the end of the last ice age. From ancient bone hoards to footprints in gypsum dune fields and permafrost tree remains, researchers find many traces of skilled human hunters – and their prey: mammoths, cave bears and giant sloths. Is it feasible that our ancestors brought these giants to extinction, or was it the rapidly changing climate? -- Welcome to the official Get.factual youtube channel! 🌍 We are a documentary streaming channel covering history, science, technology, and nature. Explore worlds distant, forgotten, and unknown; from the depths of ocean trenches to the far reaches of the cosmos. New uploads of full-length documentaries and docu-series every week! Subscribe here: https://bit.ly/GetfactualSUB

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franklinvelvet77 4 weeks ago

đó gọi là được tạo tự nhiên

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adán.cuellar 2 months, 2 weeks ago

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jamesstream97
jamesstream97 4 months, 3 weeks ago

the background music and the VOICEOVER audio come on! lower it ! so unpleasant to watch documentaries seem to never learn

michael.campbell
michael.campbell 4 months, 3 weeks ago

there’s no way that tusk was just laying there for thousands of years and instantly got found😂.

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rafaél_gastélum 6 months, 2 weeks ago

I think In written history mammoth’s were last reported 1500 years ago in Arabia … When in a famous incident occur known as the year of elephants - Yemen king marches to Mecca to destroy 🕋 kabaa 570 CE almost 50 years before the birth of prophet Muhammad PBUH and the elephant infantry was lead by a single very large elephant called mahmud which you call mammoth 🦣 now a days …

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ann_lewis 6 months, 3 weeks ago

The computer generated animals are surprisingly well done in this.

francisca_gonzález
francisca_gonzález 7 months ago

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.

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william_grant 8 months, 1 week ago

2:14 help me step bison, im stuck in here. What are you doing step bison?

luisquesada524
luisquesada524 8 months, 1 week ago

if they ever find weird looking acorn somewhere in the ice or rock, they oughtta beware...there is crazy crazy squirrel nearby

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pietrawhisper21 8 months, 1 week ago

These animals show how incredible evolution really is.

michelle_bryan
michelle_bryan 8 months, 1 week ago

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.​

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vincent_webb 8 months, 3 weeks ago

For more Get.factual Wildlife & Nature Documentaries, our team suggests: "Guyana, South America: Where Jungle Rivers Meet the Atlantic" /t1YWhGhcypY ♥

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pietrawhisper21 8 months, 3 weeks ago

Spiders have been around 400 million years. They saw the dinos come and go, still here. Earth is Planet of the Spider. They are the true apex predator.

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gaelhenriquedapaz405 8 months, 3 weeks ago

Aaeighi need Tauw gaual halm.

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carmen.vigil 9 months ago

It was after the Dinosaurs went extinct

jorge_razo
jorge_razo 9 months, 1 week ago

لا اعتقد ان سيكون هناك حرب فالقزات على الحدود غير كافيه لهحوم كبير و مناورات النجم الساطع و صقثه الغاز قد تحدث مناوشات بسيطه سيوقفعا ترامب

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nadiaaether4 9 months, 2 weeks ago

Excellent content but please if you're going to do a voiceover, lower the volume of the original language before slapping the dubbing on top of it. This is basic post-production skills

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tony_johnson 10 months, 3 weeks ago

I disagree with some points in this documentary, they have clearly never heard of the younger dryas which wiped out most of the large animals

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gabrieltempest28 10 months, 3 weeks ago

Great content, i like

maríaluisa_lemus
maríaluisa_lemus 10 months, 3 weeks ago

Any one else hear the transformers theme?