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

Cold Kansas Desert

25 min

Waterland

25 min

Flooded World

25 min

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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

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Tropical Antarctica

Season 1 · Episode 8 · May 21, 2002

The episode is set in Antarctica, 100 million years into the future. The episode focuses on five species: (1) Roachcutter, a descendant of an undisclosed sea bird and one of the first species to colonise Antarctica. It feeds on the insects of the forest and flies incredibly fast and with brilliant agility; (2)Falconfly, a descendant of the wasp which preys on the Roachcutter and other birds; (3) Spitfire Bird, a descendant of an undisclosed sea bird which collects chemicals from flowers of the Spitfire tree which it then spits at enemies such as the Falconfly; (4) Spitfire Beetle, a beetle or mantis that gathers in groups of four to take on the appearance of a Spitfire flower; (5) False Spitfire Bird, an undisclosed sea bird that looks almost identical to the other spitfire bird but cannot fire chemicals. At this point in the future, Antarctica has moved so far north it is now on the equator and has grown a tropical jungle.

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The Future Is Wild

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200225m7.4

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Tropical Antarctica

Season 1 · Episode 8 · May 21, 2002

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