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NOVA “ICE AGE DEATH TRAP”
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1 AT 8PM
EIGHT, ARIZONA PBS

Racing against developers, experts uncover a site in the Rockies
packed with fossil mammoths and other extinct beasts.

In a race against developers in the Rocky Mountains, archeologists uncover a unique fossil site packed with astonishingly well-preserved bones of mammoths, mastodons, and other giant extinct beasts.  The discovery opens a highly focused window on the vanished world of the Ice Age in North America.  NOVA “Ice Age Death Trap” airs Wednesday, February 1, 2012 at 8 p.m. on Eight, Arizona PBS.

About Eight, Arizona PBS

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