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Ice Age Footprints
Season 49
Episode 9
Ancient footprints in New Mexico’s White Sands National Park reveal new evidence of Ice Age humans that walked the land alongside enormous ground sloths and mammoths—thousands of years earlier than archaeologists thought people were in the Americas.
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Who created the Nazca lines and why? New clues to one of the greatest ancient enigmas.
53:16
Sir David Attenborough explores a site with traces of ancient mammoths and Neanderthals.
53:30
In the Arctic, enormous releases of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, threaten the climate
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53:17
Intrepid paleontologists discover that dinosaurs thrived in the Arctic’s cold and dark.
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53:28
Take a tasty look at insect foods that could benefit our health and our warming planet.
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53:28
Join the hunt for the universe’s most common—yet most elusive and baffling—particle.
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As state-legalized cannabis spreads, NOVA explores its little-known risks and benefits.
53:46
NASA launches its most ambitious search yet for traces of ancient life on Mars.