To many people the Ice Age is a vague concept belonging to the remote past but geologically it was yesterday. Extraordinary evidence of the Ice Age continues to crop up on the British landscape in lion and hippopotamus fossils in Trafalgar Square, bear and hyena fragments in Devon, fossil remains of a polar bear from Kew. So when polar bears swam in the Thames, did Britain really look like present day Greenland?
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In ACMI's collection
Credits
Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
506202
Language
English
Subject categories
Animals & Wildlife → Evolution (Biology)
Climate, Environment, Natural Resources & Disasters → Geology
Climate, Environment, Natural Resources & Disasters → Glacial epoch
Climate, Environment, Natural Resources & Disasters → Historical geology
Climate, Environment, Natural Resources & Disasters → Natural history
Climate, Environment, Natural Resources & Disasters → Paleoclimatology - Pleistocene
Documentary → Documentary films - Great Britain
History → Great Britain - History
History → Paleoclimatology - Pleistocene
Mathematics, Science & Technology → Earth sciences
Mathematics, Science & Technology → Evolution (Biology)
Mathematics, Science & Technology → Geology
Mathematics, Science & Technology → Historical geology
Television → Television programs
Television → Television programs → Television programs - Great Britain
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)