During construction at a Colorado ski resort, a bulldozer dug up something strange: a tooth so huge it had to be held in two hands. Racing to the scene, scientists from the local Denver museum could scarcely believe what they found: a vast trove of fossils from the depths of the Ice Age 100,000 years ago, when North America teemed with incredible beasts: massive mastodons, saber tooth cats and camels, giant bison with six-foot horns, and ground sloths as big as elephants with huge claws.

Packed with ingenious scientific work and spectacular fossils, NOVA's Ice Age Death Trap reveals intimate secrets of the life and death of North America's most exotic and extreme creatures. Most tantalizing of all, the team unearths startling and controversial evidence of what may be the earliest humans ever to venture into the untamed wilderness of Ice Age America.

Original broadcast date: February 1, 2012

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Video Bitrate: 3589 kbps
Video Aspect Ratio: 1.778:1 (16:9)
Video Resolution: 1280x720
Framerate: 29.97 fps
Audio Codec: AAC
Audio Bitrate: 138 kbps 48/24 KHz
Audio Channels: 2
Audio Language: English
Run-Time: 00:55:05
Size: 1.46 GB
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Subtitles language: English
Subtitles type: merged