Frozen in Time

In der letzten Episode geht Professor Fortey auf Spurensuche nach den Überlebenden der Eiszeit. Die Eiszeit dauerte auf unserem Planeten bis vor ca. 10.000 Jahren an. Richard Fortey präsentiert die wenigen Spezies, die sich spezialisierten und bis zum heutigen Tage überlebten.

In episode three, Fortey looks at the Ice Age. 2.8 million years ago - triggered by slight changes in the Earth's orbit around the sun and shifts in its ocean currents - the world began to cool. Within a few thousand years much of the planet was shrouded in a dense cloak of ice that would come and go until only 10,000 years ago. We call this age of ice - the Pleistocene Age - and it transformed the hierarchy of nature. This is the story of how a few specialist species that evolved to live in the biting cold survived into the present day.