BBC: Tar, Ice Age Killer - Ice Age Death Trap

Journey back in time to the Ice Age and witness one of the world's deadliest animal killers - the tar pit. With enough force and consistency to kill a fully grown mammoth, was crude oil the biggest threat to species survival in early Earth?

Watch more Ice Age Death Trap clips with BBC Worldwide here:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=CAE385874A79F994

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Entertainment

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• BB
• Tar
• Pit
• Prehistoric
• Ice
• Age
• Death
• Trap
• History
• Video
• Animal
• CGI

[theamazingshazbob]

humans avoid tar pits, sure, but that doesn't mean we haven't all fallen victim to petroleum.

[pythonman7]

Who ever would have thought a sticky substance that most animals probably thought was mud could be so ... so ... deadly?

[OreoDogz]

thumbs up if you are a american!

[SunnyMoon2010]

But tar has pungent odor, animals would have well aware of it.

[spyr099]

well its the end of the ice age movies >.>

[Richardhedditch261]

@brandeezy108 Immanuel Velikovsky: "..on all continents..bones of sea animals and polar land animals and tropical land animals have been found in great melees;..from the Arctic to the Antarctic...we find innumerable signs of great upheaval, ancient and recent...". Professor Frank Hibber : "...violent storms might explain the peculiar finds of so many animals crammed in caverns and fissures from diferent geological time periods.."

[brandeezy108]

@Richardhedditch261 so wouldn't that make it a pool of tar?

[olelumpy]

And then the dead elephant would attract predators and take a bunch more animals down.

[Richardhedditch261]

Tar Pits are not pools of tar which ancient animals accidently fell into, you ridiculous twits. You've been out in the baking Califotnia sun too long. The Tar Pits are in actual fact OIL DEPOSITS in the process of formation from the clustering together of dead animal bodies, often involving diverse ranges of animal species violently flung together due to massive natural cataclysms in the ancient past.

[PHDcsfan]

@1215beastman i agree thats so against psycichs

[1215beastman]

i dont think a mammoth has to fear from a tar trap realistically.imean what, a 12 tonned raging beast getting stuck in a few inchs a some sticky mud?

[TheAmbushHunter]

this narrarator owns. he sounds like capt. price