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

Tropical Antarctica

25 min

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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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200225m7.4

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The Great Plateau

Season 1 · Episode 9 · May 28, 2002

The episode is set in a lofty plateau created by the collision of Australia (who moved northward) against Japan and Kamchatka (the Asian tectonic plate), 100 million years into the future. The episode focuses on four species: (1) Silver Spider, a descendant of our spiders, the silver spiders live in huge colonies and have a caste system based on the size of the animal. They build massive webs across canyons; (2) Poggle, a descendant of the hamster and the last species of mammal on Earth at this time, prey to silver spiders; (3) Great Blue Windrunner, a brilliant blue bird with wings on its legs which sees in ultraviolet and lives at the highest points on the plateau; (4) Grass Trees, Tree-like plants descended from bamboo. This episode shows how this bizarre food chain works

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The Future Is Wild

TV Series

200225m7.4

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The Great Plateau

Season 1 · Episode 9 · May 28, 2002

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