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Trees Still Hyper-Armed Today for Extinct Giant Monsters

This documentary explores the hidden history of “botanical anachronisms”: plants whose most extreme defenses were shaped by vanished Ice Age megafauna rather than the animals we know today. Moving between atmospheric, cabinet-of-curiosity style illustrations and cinematic Pleistocene reconstructions, it traces how trees such as the Honey Locust, Osage Orange, black walnut, and black locust evolved towering thorns, toxic fruits, and powerful chemical weapons to withstand giant ground sloths, mastodons, and other prehistoric herbivores capable of eating doses that would kill modern wildlife. Framed as a quiet natural history investigation rather than a monster story, the film shows how these “ghost poisons” survive into the present as relics of an ancient ecological arms race, still active in our fields, hedgerows, and backyards. By following the evidence from paleontology, evolutionary biology, and environmental history, it reveals how modern animals, livestock, and people are now the unintended casualties of defenses engineered for enemies that disappeared over 10,000 years ago.