Episodes

13 episodes in this season

Welcome to the Future

25 min

Return of the Ice

25 min

The Vanished Sea

25 min

Prairies of Amazonia

25 min

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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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Cold Kansas Desert

Season 1 · Episode 5 · Apr 30, 2002

The episode is set in North America, 5 million years into the future. The episode focusses on three species: (1) Deathgleaner, a massive carnivorous false vampire bat that spends the day hunting for prey in the desert and spends the night in a communal roost; (2) Spink, a descendant of the quail whose wings have become digging blades. The species lives much like the naked mole-rat of our time; (3) Desert Rattleback, a descendant of the agouti, when lives in the cold regions. The episode explains that the onset of the ice age caused the agricultural belt of the USA to turn into a desert where temperatures at night regularly reach freezing. The episode shows how the animals have evolved to cope with the harsh features of this forbidding landscape.

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The Future Is Wild

TV Series

200225m7.4

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Cold Kansas Desert

Season 1 · Episode 5 · Apr 30, 2002

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