Nova: Ice Age Death Trap

Wednesday, January 16 at 9:00 p.m.

"Nova" takes you to a unique site packed with astonishingly preserved bones of mammoths, mastodons and other giant extinct beasts.

Racing against developers in the Rockies, archaeologists uncover a unique site packed with astonishingly preserved bones of mammoths, mastodons and other giant extinct beasts, opening a window on the vanished world of the Ice Age.

Pictured: A mastodon on display at the University of Michigan.