With no water to replace it in the dry climate, the Mediterranean dried out into a giant salt flat dotted with brine lakes, as it has been in the past. Africa collided with Europe and closed off the Mediterranean Sea again. The North American plains shrivelled to become cold desert. The Amazon Rainforests dried up and opened into grasslands. The ice sheets extended to as far south as Paris in the northern hemisphere and as far north as Buenos Aires in the southern hemisphere. Twelve ecosystems were chosen at three points in time:-ĥ million years' time The world is in an ice age and there are giant seabirds and carnivorous bats. For a time in 2005, a theme park based on this program was opened in Japan. The show was played out in the form of a nature documentary. The seven-part television series was released with a companion book written by geologist Dougal Dixon, author of several 'anthropologies/zoologies of the future' such as After Man: A Zoology of the Future, in conjunction with natural history television producer John Adams.īased on research and interviews with dozens of scientists, this documentary was put together to show how life could evolve in the future if Homo sapiens became extinct the Discovery Channel broadcast softened the harsh outlook by stating the human race had completely migrated from the Earth and had sent back probes to examine the progress of life on Earth.

The Future Is Wild was a 2003 joint Animal Planet/ORF (Austria) and ZDF (Germany) co-production, which used computer-generated imagery to show the possible future of life on Earth.

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