There is something quite fascinating in thinking about the great extinct animals of yesteryear. Alaska is special in that it contains some of the most epic wildlife this world has to offer, but go back 20,000 years and what we have today dwarfs in comparison to the giant critters of the last ice age. In today's episode, your hosts delve into the height of the Pleistocene ice age, the critters that roamed the last frontier during that era and how they got there. Why did most of these animals go extinct? How did giant grasslands exist in Alaska during an ice age? And were the Detroit Lions the first lions in America? It's the episode you'll want to clone a woolly mammoth after!  

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