ByTony Bradley,
Senior Contributor.
The Ice Age tends to get flattened into a postcard: endless white, a few mammoths, maybe a saber-toothed cat. Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age, debuting on Apple TV+ on November 26, replaces that simple picture with something far more dynamic. It’s a world defined by climate whiplash, mass migrations, strange megafauna, and ecosystems scrambling to adapt.
The new season marks a major shift for the franchise—away from the distant age of dinosaurs and into the Pleistocene, a time when the Earth was swinging between extremes and our own ancestors shared the landscape with giant sloths, dire wolves, marsupial lions, and hulking ground armadillos.
Dalton Duong, my resident nature enthusiast and lay expert in paleontology, joined me recently for an interview with executive producer Mike Gunton to discuss the new season of Prehistoric Planet. Gunton told us the team chose this era because it was one of the most volatile windows in Earth history. “This great turmoil was going on… nature was having to respond in remarkable ways,” he explained.
