Using the latest scientific research, advanced computer graphics technology and animatronics, Extinct looks at the life and demise of the dodo in the 1660s.
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Using the latest scientific research, advanced computer graphics technology and animatronics, Extinct looks at the life…
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Series 1 Episode 2
A look at one of the most successful predators to ever walk the earth, the sabre-tooth tiger, whose territory spread…
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Series 1 Episode 3
Palaeontologist Sylvia Gonzalez examines the remains of the Columbian Mammoth, which weighed twice as much as his…
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Series 1 Episode 4
A look at the life and demise of the great Auk, solving the mystery of its extinction using the latest scientific…
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Series 1 Episode 5
The Irish Elk ruled over its grassland home until the end of the Ice Age. With magnificent 12-foot antlers and a thick…
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The last Tasmanian Tiger was shot dead by a farmer in 1930, but was it man or nature that finally did for this…
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