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Ancient Yellowstone (Season 2)

3 episodes 97%4KCC

Beneath Yellowstone's beauty, scientists uncover mammoths, dinosaurs, and a restless supervolcano.

This season expands the scientific exploration of Greater Yellowstone, from mammoth excavations and the first Americans to triceratops fossils and the shifting path of the volcanic hotspot below. Each episode follows evidence, debate, and discovery across deep time, revealing why this landscape still shapes how scientists understand extinction, survival, and Earth's changing forces.

Episode guide

3 episodes
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1Mammoth Country
The Greater Yellowstone Area was once a rich grazing ground for huge Columbian mammoths. Now, it’s a prime hunting ground for paleontologists and archaeologists to study the remains of the gargantuan beasts – and their significance to the early Native peoples who hunted them.
14 min
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2The Last Triceratops
Montana’s Hell Creek Formation is home to a trove of late Cretaceous fossils unlike any other in the world, revealing the last days of the great dinosaurs. Researchers have now found a complete Triceratops skull that may reveal one of the last prehistoric battles before dinosaurs vanished forever.
21 min
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3Past and Future Yellowstone
Craters of the Moon National Monument is desolate – but 2,200 years ago, it was the site of today’s Yellowstone Hotspot, known for violent eruptions and huge craters. Constantly shifting due to tectonic activity, will Yellowstone one day resemble this lifeless place...when the Hotspot moves again?
16 min
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