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Apple TV is taking viewers back in time.
The streaming service announced its latest series, Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age, and shared a new trailer for the natural history series with PEOPLE.
“For two and a half million years, ice grips the planet and life takes on many forms,” begins narrator Tom Hiddleston. “This is the Ice Age, like we’ve never seen it before.”
“From blistering wind, to walls of ice half a mile high, discover a world of shifting landscapes, come face to face with remarkable creatures and epic clashes for survival. And maybe some attitude a long the way,” he continues.
Clashes between woolly rhinos and saber-toothed cats are recreated based on scientific findings from fur, soft tissues,and stomach contents preserved in permafrost that were recently discovered.
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In the series, audiences will learn more about the animals that lived in the Pleistocene era, millions of years after the extinction of the dinosaurs, including the Megalonyx jeffersonii (also known as the snow sloth). According to the press release, the snow sloths were “remarkable, barely-known animals perfectly suited to life in a frozen environment.”
“Unlike its modern cousins, this Ice Age relative could climb rocky slopes with ease, using powerful limbs and massive claws to reach sparse vegetation,” reads the description for the series. “During this period, sloths thrived in a wide variety of forms, from giant ground-dwellers to smaller, tree-dwelling species.”
A previously released clip shows two sloths embracing their environment and rolling around in the snow to give “their thick shaggy coats a clean,” as Hiddleston says. “But for first timers, all this snow can be a bit strange,” he adds.
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Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age uses the latest science to reconstruct “the intelligence and intricate social behavior of the Pleistocene’s most iconic species,” the release adds.
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Woolly mammoths, saber-toothed cats, dwarf relatives of elephants and carnivorous kangaroos will all be featured in the series, which focuses on how these animals adapted to survive dramatic climate shifts.
The previous two seasons of Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age, which traveled 66 million years into the past to explore the age of dinosaurs, are currently streaming on Apple TV.
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The five-part series premieres globally on Apple TV on Nov. 26.
