Alice Roberts and the last mammoths, from Ice Age Giants, for BBC Timestamp
The channel's one new clip comes from a 2013 series, while Lucy Worsley's myth-busting compilation keeps the bigger crowd.
BBC TimestampStory of Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.
Remarkable rare look at a perfectly preserved woolly mammoth | BBC Timestamp
Among the history and education channels of its size, BBC Timestamp gained the second most views this week, behind only hoser, whose week ran far above its usual. Only one new clip went up, and it reached past a million views in five days.
That clip is "Remarkable rare look at a perfectly preserved woolly mammoth," taken from Ice Age Giants, the 2013 series in which Alice Roberts goes looking for the great beasts of the last Ice Age. Here she follows the story to an island that, long after the ice retreated, became home to the last mammoths of all. Viewers have a running complaint: the mammoth of the title only appears in the closing seconds, and several want the full episode instead. Others swap mammoth stories of their own, including the bones found on California's Channel Islands.
The video with the most momentum, though, is ten days old. Lucy Worsley's compilation of history's biggest myths, stitched together from American History's Biggest Fibs and Royal History's Myths and Secrets, is drawing new viewers faster than the mammoth. An Atlantis compilation from 2010 has settled into a slower rhythm.
Daily views sit a little under the channel's usual pace, and subscribers grew steadily, with around 6,000 added. The channel, renamed from BBC Documentary in 2024, keeps proving that its archive does most of the talking.
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What viewers say
Video cut right when we are getting to the images mentioned in the title? Just as perplexing as the woolly mammoth extinction!
@cotteeskidSee it on YouTubeSuch a Mammoth Discovery!
@showersB4bedSee it on YouTubeThe Channel Islands off the coast of Los Angeles are replete with mammoth bones. Some were trapped as the ice melted and sea levels rose.
@michaelcharlesthearchangelSee it on YouTube
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The videos drawing views on BBC Timestamp right now
- Channel
- BBC Timestamp
- Subscribers
- 950,000 ▲ 6,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 3,065,017
- Videos published this week
- 1
- Video published
- September 30, 2026
- Video views so far
- 1,119,243
- Views on its first day
- 307,124
The numbers
Here is how BBC Timestamp's week looks in figures.
💡 Test your knowledge
Which historian presents American History's Biggest Fibs, the source of the channel's myth-busting compilation?
Lucy Worsley presented the 2019 BBC series, and the compilation's description names her.
