Hello! Just an update regarding my original plan to publish a part two: This video was copyright claimed, which is understandable, since the idea of fair use is fuzzy at best. But given how damaging actual copyright strikes can be to a channel, I am currently looking into the possibility of clearing a part two with the rights holders, just in case. I'm leaving this as a "part one" for now, but may need to update at a later time. Thanks for watching!
I always felt like more could’ve been done with the series like showing more animals in each episode to provide more biodiversity. Some groups also felt underutilized like reptiles and amphibians. Some things felt off for me(ex: the Poggle being somehow under control by spiders and the last mammal despite mammals being extremely adaptable or how 5 million years isn’t enough time for the Spinx to drastically change lifestyles and anatomy.)
...I think you misunderstood the episode of the series with the swampi and toratons. The only reason the swampi were able to kill a toraton was because it was a juvenile. The only thing they could do in response to the herd of adult toratons was evacuate the young from their nesting plants. Their venom is by no means potent enough to take down an adult.
My issue with the Toraton is that sauropods got so big to begin with because like all dinosaurs (and their bird descendants as well) they had a system of air sacs that both made their bodies lighter and made respiration more efficient at taking oxygen through their huge body. Tortoises don't have that feature, and they're cold-blooded to boot. A tortoise that big would take forever to cool down or warm up.
@@chancegivens9390 Yea but the first point is still a biggie. Sauropods have specialized traits to compensate their massive size that tortoises don't have
Ahh the Future is Wild. My first forray to speculative evolution as a 12 year old and i've never been the same since. Honestly this show largelly is responsible with my fascination with the natural world. It doesn't aged well now sure, and a lot of the designs and concepts are implausible like Toraton or the fact that all tetrapod somehow went extinct in 100 millions years. But it's hold a special place in our heart for sure. Now do Speculative Dinosaur Project! Another classic one
I think Future Is Wild was great, but it still would need a revamp/continuation, with more animals added. Like, one thing the Amazon Grassland needs are large-bodied herbivores (like something descended from some kind of deer) Also, similar birds to the Carakiller might evolve from already ground-dwelling birds (like seriema or secretary bird) rather than the flying caracara. I also imagined msome of my own creatures into the world of the show: - Neopard (Amazonian Grasslands - descended from the cougar/mountain lion) - South American Pronghorn (Amazonian Grasslands - descended from pronghorn antelopes migrating from North America after the Kansas Desert formed) - Wooly Boar (European Tundra - larger descendant of wild boars adapted to the ice) - Penguin Auk (European Tundra - flightless descendants of auks) - Desert hound (Kansas Desert - descendant of the coyote)
I wish, for the reboot, tetrapods (birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians) would survive the +100 my mass extinction, plus adding new periods, animals and ecosystems.
@@adriannegrete9586 "After Man" might have inspired the TV series "The Future is wild". Even the latter may have inspired a spec evo french book intitled "Demain les animaux du future", which only exists in french yet.
@@adriannegrete9586 I heard that they were originally gonna use creatures from After Man for this documentary. But the rights to After Man now belong to Dreamworks (apparently). So they couldn’t use them.
If i could remake this series, There are some animals that I want to changed. Scrofa - instead of wild boar it would better rabbit or hare. Rattleback - why choose south american rodent when the north american rodent also have potential, choose groundhog, prairie dog or gopher? The Babookari - Uakari is endangered monkey, but capuchin is more widespread. Poodle - the last mammal is ridiculous, this last rodent should be a new group of mammals. It shame that in 100 million, we didn't see more reptile, like snake, lizard, water monitor that can replace predator both in land and ocean.
It would be more plausible if the rattleback instead of the plates being fireproof, they burrowed a hole when there were grassland fires like aardvark and a wombat.
There’s so much of The Future is Wild that you should cover! I wanna see multiple parts for a documentary you could do! There’s lots of fascinating details!
I love your content,it's very similar to curious archive(i guess you could call it convergent evolution) and I always find new and exciting content,keep up the awesome work👍
I love Curious Archive! I never intended for our content to converge so often, but hey, we both love spec evo, so it’s bound to happen! Thanks for watching. :)
"Gotta Catch'em all!"... Deathgleaners? I think not, sounds like a Zubat to me. That other armored thing kind of reminds me of a Sandshrew too. This is all just like real-life Pokemon. Haha
I wish this series had some sort of remake or revamp which expands on the world and includes more wildlife. And also to do some extra cleaning on the biology of some of the animals (the poggle and the toraton for example)
Hey. If anyone wants to see some updated designs for the creatures in The Future is Wild, then check out Mario Lanzas. He made a video showcasing the sizes of different creatures from the series, and remade their designs to look better and more realistic. Seriously though, his design for the Carakiller actually looks like something a Caracara would evolve into.
Far as I know their no other documentary like the future is wild what I heard from others there were plans for a sequel but it was canceled I wish their are more documentary. Example: a live action and fix up to the book after man
After Man was made in a documentary type film! Then you have Alien Planet, featuring the three probes: Newton, Balboa and Da Vinci. I recorded it on VHS when it premiered. :P Extraterrestrial is another one, don't think I've seen the whole thing. Netflix put out Alien Worlds not too long ago, I'm about to watch that again! I'm sure there are others I'm forgetting or haven't had the pleasure of watching yet.
@@RealBradMiller there just documentary on aliens so not was I was saying and the after man wasn’t not much suff based off the book in short their should be more documentary about the future of earth
"Imagine a world millions of years in the future. A world where evolution has written a new chapter in the story of life. The world is inhabited by very strange creatures, like nothing the Earth has ever seen."
For show that is ostentativly about reasoned speculation it way to often comes as speedrun of building some organism (extinct or extant) from some other random one. Because of that it lives rent free in my head for more than half of my life. Also salt plains. That´s by far my favourite segment.
one main problem i have with this series is that it treats mammals as evolution dead end, and wipe out an extremely widespread and successful class of animal for no good reason.
These creatures look so alien, they should belong on various alien planets in various sci-fi franchises including Star Wars and James Cameron’s Avatar franchise!
some species of spiders are yet to e discovered... probably because they are self aware and extremely intelegent... believe they are related to the jumping spiders... spider espers
I remember getting hyped for this in high school and making sure I watched every episode. Then I found the DVD on sale and couldn't shut up about how cool it was. Then I watched the DVD and realized.. it wasn't really that good. The logic is fine, I guess the science is cool. But it's a really poorly made show!
No...the "logic" was hot garbage and there wasn't any science to speak of. They literally made things up(mammals are doing terrible right now...it's not at all true but we need a reason to justify our sci-fi nonsense regarding why the last mammals on earth millions of years from now will be rodents kept as livestock by hyper evolved spiders). They literal had actors pretending to be researches in the fields of evolutionary biology....because it's the Discovery Channel and by that time they pretty much gave up on actual education.
Honestly, this show makes spec evolution seem really silly and cartoonish. Turned me off to the genre for more than a decade after watching a few episodes, which is a shame. Your vids are really well put together and entertaining, however!
This "documentary"(it isn't a documentary as opposed to speculative nonsense) was awful. Full of inaccuracies(mammals are actually doing terribly right now....no I don't have any evidence to back this up but we need a reason for speculating as to why the last mammals on earth are rodents that are being kept as livestock for silver spiders that will rule the world in the future) presented by actors whom the show presented as actual research scientists in the fields of molecular genetics(as if there is any other kind), and evolutionary biology.
I mean, mammals are doing pretty bad right now, many species we’re familiar with are threatened or endangered. Some are only surviving due to intense human involvement. While mammals as a whole are incredibly adaptable and could exist for millions of years, many mammal lineages can’t last forever. Though I feel like TFIW took this concept to an extreme.
@@kade-qt1zu No...they weren't. Having a caption under your name labeling you as a "scientist" doesn't make you a "scientist". The fact that they were making things up should have tipped you off. Discovery is known for pulling this kind of nonsense
My only gripe with this documentary, is the fact that these ecosystems felt empty. This is especially true for the Amazonian savanna, which couldn’t had some large herbivores, perhaps descended from things like deer, peccaries, or the assorted rodents like the maras.
The main reason is CGI fur was expensive and difficult to animate when this was made, and I guess they wanted to show as wide a range of time periods as possible. This is also why mammals go extinct halfway through the doc. Imo, I wish they'd just focused on the far future with a world of terrestrial invertebrates.
I used to hate The Future Is Wild compared to other spec evolution stories like After Man, but it grew on me ever since I watched the documentary. If i could change something about it though, id probably add more animals because the world feels a little empty. Good vid as always 💙
Fair points as it was actually created because they couldn’t make an after man documentary so they made something theirselves. Personally, it’s Ku favorite just because it was my first and I watched both the documentary and the kids tv show religiously as a child
Im surprised anyone could dislike theses different series. Im captivated by what these worlds hold even if they might feel scarce or empty because they are all so uniquely original
You know, when I can’t sleep because I’m stressed or anxious about the future, this channel is where I go now. I disappear into the wonder of the subject matter and it takes my mind off of anything
My criticism is their take on the downfall of mammals, I mean rats are one of the most successful species around, what's not to say they wouldn't evolve to fill various niches after the extinction of some major mammals? I felt After Man did a better job in this regard. The other is that many of these ecosystems felt underutilized, we focus on just a few species instead of getting an in-depth view.
Hello! Just an update regarding my original plan to publish a part two: This video was copyright claimed, which is understandable, since the idea of fair use is fuzzy at best. But given how damaging actual copyright strikes can be to a channel, I am currently looking into the possibility of clearing a part two with the rights holders, just in case. I'm leaving this as a "part one" for now, but may need to update at a later time. Thanks for watching!
Well it doesn't say 'part 1' anymore so I'm guess it didn't work. Real pity.
I always felt like more could’ve been done with the series like showing more animals in each episode to provide more biodiversity. Some groups also felt underutilized like reptiles and amphibians. Some things felt off for me(ex: the Poggle being somehow under control by spiders and the last mammal despite mammals being extremely adaptable or how 5 million years isn’t enough time for the Spinx to drastically change lifestyles and anatomy.)
...I think you misunderstood the episode of the series with the swampi and toratons. The only reason the swampi were able to kill a toraton was because it was a juvenile. The only thing they could do in response to the herd of adult toratons was evacuate the young from their nesting plants. Their venom is by no means potent enough to take down an adult.
I think you're right. Thanks for pointing that out!
A famous scp researcher
I remember as a kid that I wanted one of the adult Toratons to step on a nest to crush the swampi bebes...
...I was cruel.
Hi@@ThoughtPotato, I'm a biologist
I think like a lot of people, this was their first exposure to spec bio even before they realized it. It has a special place in my heart.
My issue with the Toraton is that sauropods got so big to begin with because like all dinosaurs (and their bird descendants as well) they had a system of air sacs that both made their bodies lighter and made respiration more efficient at taking oxygen through their huge body. Tortoises don't have that feature, and they're cold-blooded to boot. A tortoise that big would take forever to cool down or warm up.
Maybe they evolved a more warm blooded metabolism over the millions of years
@@chancegivens9390 Yea but the first point is still a biggie. Sauropods have specialized traits to compensate their massive size that tortoises don't have
@@seandewar47 True, however nature is full of anomalies so I wouldn't be surprised if something like this existed in the future
@@chancegivens9390 That's just wishful thinking
@@seandewar47 not really. I'm just saying you never know.
Ahh the Future is Wild. My first forray to speculative evolution as a 12 year old and i've never been the same since. Honestly this show largelly is responsible with my fascination with the natural world. It doesn't aged well now sure, and a lot of the designs and concepts are implausible like Toraton or the fact that all tetrapod somehow went extinct in 100 millions years. But it's hold a special place in our heart for sure.
Now do Speculative Dinosaur Project! Another classic one
I think Future Is Wild was great, but it still would need a revamp/continuation, with more animals added. Like, one thing the Amazon Grassland needs are large-bodied herbivores (like something descended from some kind of deer) Also, similar birds to the Carakiller might evolve from already ground-dwelling birds (like seriema or secretary bird) rather than the flying caracara.
I also imagined msome of my own creatures into the world of the show:
- Neopard (Amazonian Grasslands - descended from the cougar/mountain lion)
- South American Pronghorn (Amazonian Grasslands - descended from pronghorn antelopes migrating from North America after the Kansas Desert formed)
- Wooly Boar (European Tundra - larger descendant of wild boars adapted to the ice)
- Penguin Auk (European Tundra - flightless descendants of auks)
- Desert hound (Kansas Desert - descendant of the coyote)
Those are some great ideas!
I wish, for the reboot, tetrapods (birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians) would survive the +100 my mass extinction, plus adding new periods, animals and ecosystems.
Large-bodied antelope, huh? Sounds like Gigantalope to me.
@@adriannegrete9586 "After Man" might have inspired the TV series "The Future is wild". Even the latter may have inspired a spec evo french book intitled "Demain les animaux du future", which only exists in french yet.
@@adriannegrete9586
I heard that they were originally gonna use creatures from After Man for this documentary.
But the rights to After Man now belong to Dreamworks (apparently). So they couldn’t use them.
For all its flaws, The Future is Wild was such a cool thing to me as a kid. Seeing the old episodes is such a nostalgia trip now.
This series along with alien planet feels like a forgotten fever dream in my childhood when I watched it on Animal Planet
That title is so much different than pretty much every other video on your channel and I kind of love it.
Haha, I thought I'd just have fun with this one, so that's great to hear!
If i could remake this series, There are some animals that I want to changed.
Scrofa - instead of wild boar it would better rabbit or hare.
Rattleback - why choose south american rodent when the north american rodent also have potential, choose groundhog, prairie dog or gopher?
The Babookari - Uakari is endangered monkey, but capuchin is more widespread.
Poodle - the last mammal is ridiculous, this last rodent should be a new group of mammals.
It shame that in 100 million, we didn't see more reptile, like snake, lizard, water monitor that can replace predator both in land and ocean.
Re: rattleback: don't forget beavers and porcupines (scaley tail and already has spines respectively).
@@Xbalanque84 what about hedgehog
@@canonbehenna612 hedgehogs aren’t rodents, just look at the teeth, they have more carnivore like teeth
Boars are so adaptable there’s really no reason to get rid of them.
It would be more plausible if the rattleback instead of the plates being fireproof, they burrowed a hole when there were grassland fires like aardvark and a wombat.
I begged for the DVD set as a youngling. I would watch this show over and over for years
There’s so much of The Future is Wild that you should cover! I wanna see multiple parts for a documentary you could do! There’s lots of fascinating details!
That’s one of my favorite spec evo projects, it gives me so much nostalgia!!!
I love your content,it's very similar to curious archive(i guess you could call it convergent evolution) and I always find new and exciting content,keep up the awesome work👍
I love Curious Archive! I never intended for our content to converge so often, but hey, we both love spec evo, so it’s bound to happen! Thanks for watching. :)
I second that, I love both of you
@@ThoughtPotato oh my gosh thank you so much for responding
imagine if this series was remade today
I imagine that often. Apparently they're working on a VR experience, which sounds awesome
I remember Spore sponsoring this and I was amazed as a kid. Bringing back the nostalgia here.
The Ganet Whale: continuing the proud tradition of aquatic dinosaurs starting with Spinosaurus all those years ago
"Gotta Catch'em all!"... Deathgleaners? I think not, sounds like a Zubat to me. That other armored thing kind of reminds me of a Sandshrew too. This is all just like real-life Pokemon. Haha
Now that you mention it, that does make sense.
Your voice is so calming, I love it.
You forgot the mediterranean basin.
Let’s go a future is wild episode
I wish this series had some sort of remake or revamp which expands on the world and includes more wildlife. And also to do some extra cleaning on the biology of some of the animals (the poggle and the toraton for example)
I remember and enjoyed this documentary.
My boy the salt mediterranean desert was done dirty.
Adult Toratons can survive the Swampus' bite, it's the babies that are vulnerable.
The future is wild was a fever dream I barely remember
Can't wait for part 2!
Hey. If anyone wants to see some updated designs for the creatures in The Future is Wild, then check out Mario Lanzas. He made a video showcasing the sizes of different creatures from the series, and remade their designs to look better and more realistic. Seriously though, his design for the Carakiller actually looks like something a Caracara would evolve into.
Oooh perfect timing man
the Babookari reminds me of the Japanese water spirit that likes a drink the Shōjō the minature bigfoot creature
We need more spec evo shows
The Future is Thought Potato
Far as I know their no other documentary like the future is wild what I heard from others there were plans for a sequel but it was canceled I wish their are more documentary. Example: a live action and fix up to the book after man
After Man was made in a documentary type film! Then you have Alien Planet, featuring the three probes: Newton, Balboa and Da Vinci. I recorded it on VHS when it premiered. :P
Extraterrestrial is another one, don't think I've seen the whole thing.
Netflix put out Alien Worlds not too long ago, I'm about to watch that again!
I'm sure there are others I'm forgetting or haven't had the pleasure of watching yet.
@@RealBradMiller there just documentary on aliens so not was I was saying and the after man wasn’t not much suff based off the book in short their should be more documentary about the future of earth
@@canonbehenna612 Okay, be a stick in the mud.
It would be 'their documentary', not 'there documentary',
best of luck out there.
"Imagine a world millions of years in the future.
A world where evolution has written a new chapter in the story of life.
The world is inhabited by very strange creatures, like nothing the Earth has ever seen."
I hope you do the other biomes
I wish we could’ve seen much more of the world from the first era. We only saw 3 creatures in 3 biomes.
the baboonari reminds me of a more realistic version of the Japanese yokai the Shojo
For show that is ostentativly about reasoned speculation it way to often comes as speedrun of building some organism (extinct or extant) from some other random one. Because of that it lives rent free in my head for more than half of my life.
Also salt plains. That´s by far my favourite segment.
This made me a spec evo fan when I was a little kid.
I absolutely loved this show.
I remember "The Future is Wild" from many years ago.
Thanks
Could death gleaners be symbiotic with desert rattlebacks, the rattlebacks getting protection and the gleaners getting an easy meal
I love The Future is Wild, I watch it pretty often
the Spink could be a pokemon
Was a mint show , thanks for helping me rekebr what it was called lol
Yes,tfiw
Apparently, I’m an early Potato 🥔
Awesome content bro!🎥 🎞🎞🎞🎞
Love this series, wish there was a modern version 👀
Ha! You certainly are. I wish there was, too! Apparently they’re a working on a VR version with some new species. Can’t wait!
I argee with you we need more documentary like the future is wild
VERY NICE, your voice sounds close to text to speech, unless it is?
I’d love to see this with jurassic world level cgi
one main problem i have with this series is that it treats mammals as evolution dead end, and wipe out an extremely widespread and successful class of animal for no good reason.
It wasn’t just mammals but all tetrapods.
so smart
Oeathgleaner could have evolved beaks
These creatures look so alien, they should belong on various alien planets in various sci-fi franchises including Star Wars and James Cameron’s Avatar franchise!
So your telling us that there will be a race of squidwards.
Squibbon gang rise up
some species of spiders are yet to e discovered... probably because they are self aware and extremely intelegent...
believe they are related to the jumping spiders... spider espers
No love for the Mediterranean Salt plains fr.
Dude I love your voice, its so cute
Love the vid
So... what animal Swampus originally came from?
Octopi
You are a very smart Potato 🥔
First
*just missed it, sorry.
We used to call it the fluture is wild, cuz of the flish
Where are the people
There extinct or left the earth
@@canonbehenna612 ok
Kanto Dinosaurs
Johto ice age
Hoenn modern animals
Sinnoh future is wild
Only young toratons died to a swamptopus bite, tho.
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I remember getting hyped for this in high school and making sure I watched every episode. Then I found the DVD on sale and couldn't shut up about how cool it was. Then I watched the DVD and realized.. it wasn't really that good. The logic is fine, I guess the science is cool. But it's a really poorly made show!
No...the "logic" was hot garbage and there wasn't any science to speak of. They literally made things up(mammals are doing terrible right now...it's not at all true but we need a reason to justify our sci-fi nonsense regarding why the last mammals on earth millions of years from now will be rodents kept as livestock by hyper evolved spiders). They literal had actors pretending to be researches in the fields of evolutionary biology....because it's the Discovery Channel and by that time they pretty much gave up on actual education.
I don't care what my ancestors look like and how weird it gets as long as there's no democrats.
You need to start using Metric unites because only 3/195 countries use Imperail
Honestly, this show makes spec evolution seem really silly and cartoonish. Turned me off to the genre for more than a decade after watching a few episodes, which is a shame. Your vids are really well put together and entertaining, however!
This "documentary"(it isn't a documentary as opposed to speculative nonsense) was awful. Full of inaccuracies(mammals are actually doing terribly right now....no I don't have any evidence to back this up but we need a reason for speculating as to why the last mammals on earth are rodents that are being kept as livestock for silver spiders that will rule the world in the future) presented by actors whom the show presented as actual research scientists in the fields of molecular genetics(as if there is any other kind), and evolutionary biology.
I mean, mammals are doing pretty bad right now, many species we’re familiar with are threatened or endangered. Some are only surviving due to intense human involvement.
While mammals as a whole are incredibly adaptable and could exist for millions of years, many mammal lineages can’t last forever. Though I feel like TFIW took this concept to an extreme.
@@mlgodzilla4206 To be fair, most mammals today are endangered due to human involvement.
Ok, I was following with you, but that last part isn't true. The people in the show were actual scientists.
@@kade-qt1zu No...they weren't. Having a caption under your name labeling you as a "scientist" doesn't make you a "scientist". The fact that they were making things up should have tipped you off. Discovery is known for pulling this kind of nonsense
My only gripe with this documentary, is the fact that these ecosystems felt empty.
This is especially true for the Amazonian savanna, which couldn’t had some large herbivores, perhaps descended from things like deer, peccaries, or the assorted rodents like the maras.
The main reason is CGI fur was expensive and difficult to animate when this was made, and I guess they wanted to show as wide a range of time periods as possible. This is also why mammals go extinct halfway through the doc. Imo, I wish they'd just focused on the far future with a world of terrestrial invertebrates.
I used to hate The Future Is Wild compared to other spec evolution stories like After Man, but it grew on me ever since I watched the documentary. If i could change something about it though, id probably add more animals because the world feels a little empty. Good vid as always 💙
Fair points as it was actually created because they couldn’t make an after man documentary so they made something theirselves. Personally, it’s Ku favorite just because it was my first and I watched both the documentary and the kids tv show religiously as a child
All the speculative docs I've seen have the same problem, not enough species
Im surprised anyone could dislike theses different series. Im captivated by what these worlds hold even if they might feel scarce or empty because they are all so uniquely original
One of the main criticisms is just how reptiles and mammals get wiped out wholly. It feels a little contrived, the 100 my ad extinction.
There is a project called neocene
It used to be a fan made expansion to the documentary, but slowly branches off as its own
As crazy as this spec bio was it will always hold a huge place in my heart. It was my first introduction to spec bio and I've been hooked ever since
Actually, the Swampus venom can only kill a baby Toroton and the adults are much too big to be killed by the venom.
Give props to the camera man for surviving 100 millions years to show us these creatures
You know, when I can’t sleep because I’m stressed or anxious about the future, this channel is where I go now. I disappear into the wonder of the subject matter and it takes my mind off of anything
16:01 is it just me or does it feel like they are communicating via color patterns in their skin?
the Rattleback reminds me of Armadillomon from the second series of Digimon
I really loved watching the full series as a kid!
The nostalgia is hitting hard in this video. XD
why do so many spec evo projects name their creatures like they were pokemon... especially toraton
Because portmanteaus are AWESOME!
I'm the 10th person here
All their names sound like they should be given towards Pokémon.
14:31 charge is measured in amps, not volts.
My criticism is their take on the downfall of mammals, I mean rats are one of the most successful species around, what's not to say they wouldn't evolve to fill various niches after the extinction of some major mammals? I felt After Man did a better job in this regard. The other is that many of these ecosystems felt underutilized, we focus on just a few species instead of getting an in-depth view.
actually the carakiller is the descendent from the crested caracara
You forgot the Mediterranean
What about living fossils
8:39 Quails fly? Or not
I really hope The Future is Wild gets a major overhaul. Same time periods, but with even more creatures.
I remember that documentary. So funny to see. The TV show was also awesome to watch.
The goose become therizinosaurus
Maybe an orinomius
Brings back memories thank you
The future be wildin.