Five ice-age mammoth skeletons in “ near-pristine condition ” have been discovered in the Cotswolds.... Tools used by Neanderthals were also found in the dig at a gravel quarry, as well as elks, dung beetles and extinct varieties of pollen and seeds.... Professor Ben Garrod, who will appear in the show, described the objects as “ one of the most important discoveries in British palaeontology ”....

Palaeontologists were astonished by the preserved remains of two adults, two juveniles and an infant, who roamed Earth around 200, 000 years ago, in a gravel quarry, near Swindon.... Furthermore, they also unearthed prehistoric tools used by Neanderthals to hunt these gigantic beasts at the same site.... What can they tell us about life in ice-age Britain?...