Review of the Future is Wild

[@TheAnticlinton]

Some additional issues you didn't mention: -for 510 million years, not a single cephalopod has evolved to live in fresh or brackish water. I remember there was some biological issues issue regarding how osmosis works in cephalopod tissue which prevents such adaptation, yet somehow they have adapted to live in freshwater. -in the 200 my scenario, the documentary says all aquatic fish have died, yet sharks are cartilaginous fish. What couldve been explored in the documentary: -what if a hoatzin ancestor retained large claws due to neoteny, and its fingers gradually became more flexible, reevolving the theropod clawed hand to some way. -bats somehow adapting to have partially hollow bones, allowing them to reach greater sizes, and overtake birds in size due to having the potential to use front libs to launch themselves into the air -crocodilians reevolving into marine forms -exploration of the descendants of feral domesticated animals like cats and dogs -assuming cephalopods colonized land, explore how they could evolve an endoskeleton completely independently through articulating their gladius.

[@F.H.W]

Mentioning Ben G Thomas 13 minutes in is baced

[@deadpoolrlz9685]

The future is wild needs a good remake

[@canonbehenna612]

Agreed with updated design and behavior along with new creatures to live with the old creatures

[@hagfish4998]

I never knew that the babookaris were meant to be the last of the primates? The Future is Wild was originally gonna be a prequal/sequal to After Man, which had multiple primate species.

[@joaovictorburgosfernandes6274]

Amazing video! I like to belive the Titan "Dolphin" from the future is wild vr is in fact a very derived Poggle.

[@Caratrox]

Hey, theres another documentary called "After the Armageddon" created by a Yotuber by the name of yandere enjoyer, It follows a Similar format but focuses on Life after a Dinosaur Level mass extinction, It focuses on Being accurate as apposed to "wouldn't it be cool if __" and uses the rodents of unusal Specilization trope quite well.

[@canonbehenna612]

Yeah I seen it to and the creature look more possible then after earth and 7 seeds.

[@william3100]

To be fair, I don't think the creators of The Future Is Wild were making creatures with the "wouldn't it be cool if... " mentality because they are scientists and have no true reason to be so ridiculous in some of there speculations just because they are cool. If you look behind the scenes, particularly behind the creation of the Megasquid, they seem to have believed that something like it was totally possible. I don't know what information they had, and I don't think any of us could really find out too much. However, the fact that they seem adamant on being realistic, leads me to believe that much of this stuff was seen as plausible at the time. So, perhaps the ideas of biology, ecosystems, and much more are just a product of outdated science just like how Walking With Dinosaurs is a product of outdated knowledge on prehistory.

[@flameone4705]

I find it odd that in the future, invertebrates take over when in all prior mass extinctions, invertebrates suffered the most out of them as compared to vertebrates(specifically in marine environments)

[@wolfpackastrobiology3690]

Indeed, invertebrates had their shot at the ecologically dominant roles in the Paleozoic but the vertebrates ended up filling them (and not because they stumbled into them but because their anatomical and physiological features made them better suited for the roles).

[@flameone4705]

@@wolfpackastrobiology3690 I can see arthropods being able to compete with vertabrates in land should oxygen increase to like 40-50% and gravity weakened a little.

[@joaovictorburgosfernandes6274]

I guess they just wanted the future to be more alien-looking. Not having to render fur and feather is a nice bonus 😅

[@TheAnticlinton]

@@wolfpackastrobiology3690 Also in both mass extinctions, bony actinopterygian fish came out unusually unscathed compared to other marine vertebrates.

[@TheAnticlinton]

@@flameone4705Not really. Even with more oxygen, large arthropods simply have less efficient respiratory systems, which leads to lower metabolism. Also not a single arthropod has evolved warm bloodedness.

[@canonbehenna612]

Wish the future is wild got a reboot like the wwd

[@Carlos-bz5oo]

Can't believe you didn't address the fact that cephalopods cannot become terrestrial since they'd have to go through a freshwater phase, which they are incapable of.

[@TooFarGone-g5c]

I like how you say 'here' since it sounds like 'hea" Also recommending unnatural history channel three times is based.

[@wolfpackastrobiology3690]

I'm an American living in Australia and that's how they pronounce it down under.

[@TooFarGone-g5c]

@@wolfpackastrobiology3690 Interesting

[@zenadiamacroura5981]

Haha lol.. I noticed that! Does that happen to be something your picking up on or something your intentionally do to better familiarize yourself with the dialect..? I can do an Australian accent pretty well.

[@wolfpackastrobiology3690]

@@zenadiamacroura5981 At first I tried to familiarize myself with aussie english but later I started pronouncing things differently without thinking about it.

[@rylanbrewer3320]

Love this video

[@rylanbrewer3320]

Hope there will be other video reviews in this format

[@absentfish1706]

Great video, with really nice analysis. If you allow me, I would like to add a little on the topic of marine invertebrates (as I study them a lot for my degree). In the tropical seas of 100 my we are presented with reefs made by algae and entirely invertebrate coastal ecosystem. I find it hard to believe. Yeah, true, now corals reefs are struggling under global warming, however corals as a group have been around for at least 400 my, and bounced back after every extinction event. Even if the corals die out, Sponges, bivalve molluscs and even sedentary worms all have a better chance of becoming new reef builders by acquiring symbiotic algae, as the winning formula for the reef builder seems to be sedentary calcifying animal + algal symbiont. I agree with the critique of the sea slug swimmer, and just want to emphasise the unlikelihood of such a creature in the world where fish are still a prevalent group (lurkfish is right there), as bony fishes will never allow any invertebrate to come even close to macro-predator niche, as long as vey are there. The only ones who came close are cephalopods, and they have a very long history of coexisting with fishes and have some remarkable adaptations, which sea slugs will have no time to evolve, even if all fish in the sea die out (as fish will quickly recolonise the sea from the freshwater). Spindle soldiers are also quite unrealistic, as they are sea spiders - a very lethargic group, which has no quick mussels and no ability to move fast. They have no real way of dealing damage as their mouths are more geared towards eating very soft or small prey (like hydroid polyps). A much more likely candidate for this niche would be any kind of a malacostracan crustacean (amphipod or an isopod, decapod be it shrimp or crab, or even a small mantis shrimp), as they are quite agile, often establish symbiotic connections with all sorts of marine creatures, and have sharp mandibles and claws (overall I think future belongs to crabs).

[@gazamidori2866]

Id really like you to do alien planet as ots one of my most favorite movies

[@wolfpackastrobiology3690]

I do plan on doing that at some point.