Episodes

13 episodes in this season

Welcome to the Future

25 min

Return of the Ice

25 min

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The Vanished Sea

25 min

Prairies of Amazonia

25 min

Cold Kansas Desert

25 min

Waterland

25 min

Flooded World

25 min

Tropical Antarctica

25 min

The Great Plateau

25 min

E10

The Endless Desert

25 min

E11

The Global Ocean

25 min

E12

Graveyard Desert

25 min

E13

The Tentacled Forest

325 min

The Future Is Wild

TV Series

200225m7.4

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The Vanished Sea

Season 1 · Episode 3 · Apr 16, 2002

The episode is set in what was the Mediterranean sea in 5 million years time. It features four species: (1) Cryptile, a lizard with a sticky frill to catch flies which it can then lick off at its leisure; (2) Scrofa, a descendant of the wild boar which has developed spindly legs to allow it to live on the rocky islands in the desert; (3) Gryken, a descendant of the pine marten which hunts Scrofa in the cracked rocks of the landscape; (4) brine flies (live-acted). Before this time in the future, the tip of Africa has collided with the southern tip of Spain, thus enclosing the Mediterranean inland. It has since dried up to become an enormous salt desert with a few lakes of ultra-saline water, as it was during the Messinian salinity crisis. The holiday islands that used to be in the sea are now mountains scattered throughout the desert.

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The Future Is Wild

TV Series

200225m7.4

Documentary

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The Vanished Sea

Season 1 · Episode 3 · Apr 16, 2002

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