They are the bones of an ancient giant - nicknamed 'Goliath'.įor decades, the best minds in science studied fossils and concluded that human evolution was a straightforward story: millions of years ago somewhere in Africa, one of our ape ancestors came down from the trees.
At the bottom of Africa, another bone detective finds some very different fossils. This new species may force a rewrite of the human story. It's one of the biggest finds in the last fifty years. Here, investigators find an entirely new kind of human half our height - nicknamed the 'Hobbit'. The first just came to light on the remote Indonesian island of Flores. This new programme touches upon two astounding discoveries. What happened? How did we survive these threats to become the last walking ape standing, the one species who left the other contenders in the dust, seized the planet, and declared it our own? In Last Man Standing: The Human Race we'll explore this captivating mystery and search for the ultimate survivor. Investigators have reached a startling conclusion: around 70 thousand years ago, we almost became extinct. To survive, we modern humans became more adaptable, cooperative, and clever. Drought, volcanoes and maybe even other ape-men killed them. Super-predators like sabre-toothed cats and giant crocs hunted them. On these journeys, they left evidence of their perilous lives. Some walking apes - including our own species, modern humans - undertook epic migrations out of Africa. Many lived in the same place at the same time. Over the eons, these creatures morphed into a variety of weird human forms. Then, astonishing things began to happen. Here apes first descended from trees and started walking on two legs. How did we get here? And what happened on the journey from ape to man?
It's the world's most intriguing mystery. This is a fascinating documentary that combines commentary by historians, including author Stephen Ambrose, with spectacular underwater photography. Diving robots equipped with cameras are used to assess the condition of the wreck, and sections of the ship not seen since the morning of the attack are viewed. And while thousands pay their respects at the memorial built atop the wreckage of the sunken battleship Arizona, an elite team of divers from the National Park Service fear the old battlewagon is an "ecological time bomb" because of vast amounts of fuel oil still aboard. Everyone knows about the Japanese torpedo plane attacks, but Ballard, along with American and Japanese veterans, sought out the wreckage of a Japanese midget submarine that actually became the first casualty of the battle when it was sunk by an American destroyer an hour before the Japanese airplanes made their appearance. And by going underwater he's determined to find out some of the lesser-known aspects of the Sunday morning when America was plunged into World War II. The man who will always be known for finding the Titanic, Robert Ballard, contends that there's still a lot we don't know about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on the morning of December 7, 1941.
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