What Will Earth Be Like 300 Million Years From Now?

[@martijnvanweele6204]

"Will you look into PBS Eons?" "what will I see?" "Things that were, things that are, and some things that have not yet come to pass..."

[@AustralianBird]

That line goes pretty hard

[@anthonyhiggins7409]

I cannot “like” this comment enough. 🙂

[@infinitemonkey917]

@@anthonyhiggins7409I can't gag enough on the cheeze.

[@anthonyhiggins7409]

@@infinitemonkey917 what can I say? Some people just like cheese.. 🤷‍♂️😆

[@jamesdriscoll_tmp1515]

I love this comment, and despair.

[@Shantosh9550]

Anyone remember The Future is Wild?

[@Reitiranossaurobanguela]

thanks for reminding me of It!

[@FeeshUnofficial]

If you liked The Future Is Wild you should check out C.M. Koseman's All Tomorrows and All Yesterdays

[@bryaneberly3588]

adored that program. have you read "After Man" by Dougal Dixon?

[@saviourojukwu893]

Yep

[@BleachMr873]

Me!

[@lerneanlion]

The hopping snails in the vast desert, the squids that live in the lichen forests, the oceans that are filled with fish-sized crusteceans and the flying fishes that dominated the skies, the future is indeed wild.

[@АлтайскийКазак]

People always say that living forever would suck, but it’s my curiosity about these sorts of things that make me disagree.

[@kats9755]

I still think living "forever" would suck. If you mean "forever" in cosmic terms. If we're just defining "forever" as "significantly longer lived than any other living thing that's come before", then I agree it'd be fun for a while.

[@quillaja]

Those people lack imagination.

[@Techpriest1010]

Living forever as we are today with our limited cognitive abilities would drive us insane pretty soon.

[@MaekarManastorm]

You would grow tired , tired of the struggle, tired of watching everything you know and love turn to dust

[@alittlewarlord]

rip to everyone else in the replies, but ME TOO!! even if i wasn't actively participating, just being able to watch what happens and how the universe continues to develop, getting to answer all of the questions i have about how things happen and will happen - ideally, if there is an afterlife, it's spectator mode.

[@Ythnewg]

I have been a PBS fan since the trouble with trilobites. I was in high school then. Now i major in geology starting undergrad research on divergent boundary chemistry. Thank you for the inspiration you kept me excited when it was hard

[@dforrest4503]

Very cool!

[@ancient_orchards]

More future spec please! It makes me feel better about the systems collapse we're all living through - knowing that no matter what, life will persist, and all kinds of unknown beings will inevitably flourish again.

[@SciMinute]

This episode brought back memories of The Future is Wild! 😂

[@roys.1889]

Is that the one with the Super-sized Man-o-Wars called the Reef Glider, the Sapient Squid monkeys, and the Torratons?

[@wildnye]

​@@roys.1889that's the one!

[@stuartaaron613]

Yes. @@roys.1889

[@chakuseki]

Omg me too! One word: FLISH

[@takenname8053]

This is even further beyond! The Future is Wild stopped at 200 Million Years

[@nsnopper]

I learned from Star Trek: Voyager that mankind will evolve into salamanders.

[@Kashype101]

Lol weird episode that was

[@Total_Entropy36]

only if we hit warp 10 tho 😮

[@davidrichardbartlett_reeve9760]

Humans didn't evolve into them in that episode, they were a previous reptilian sapient species that fled earth before the astroid impact that wiped out the dinos.

[@nsnopper]

@@davidrichardbartlett_reeve9760 Wrong episode. Watch ST Voyager: Threshold, S2 E15. It’s considered one of the worst of the Voyager episodes. Incidentally, you are referring to Distant Origin, S3 E23.

[@davidrichardbartlett_reeve9760]

@@nsnopper you could be right, thanks I miss voyager lol.

[@jaquessiemasz8650]

May PBS Eons last 100 million years! ❤

[@zimriel]

... under different management

[@scorpiovenator_4736]

Imagine if they actually existed for 1 million years

[@treystephens6166]

@@scorpiovenator_4736GODZILLA will Out Live STAR WARS.

[@drhashim1985]

Maximum 30 years

[@boywithoutaparachute]

Here here🎉

[@kailawkamo1568]

This episode reminded me of The Future is Wild. What a trip down memory lane ❤

[@normanmendez636]

Eons has come full circle, looking at the past to looking at the present now to looking at the future

[@MossyMozart]

@normanmendez636 - I hope this doesn't mean they are closing up shop!

[@icekangaroo9392]

Kinda wish this was a much longer video there’s a lot of speculation that could be interesting to see.

[@brucewayne000]

Awesome content!!

[@mouselet]

Failed rift valley in the US? Can you do an episode on that and other similar terrain features in the future?

[@AndrewTBP]

They already did that.

[@ortherner]

@@AndrewTBPwhat vid

[@vgfytjbtff]

"Amasia" looks like a pun in portuguese - as if the continent are "amasiados" (meaning they became lovers)

[@MossyMozart]

Also, Amaze-ia!

[@LimeyLassen]

It's a Portuguese plot! They're planning on world domination!

[@jamesdriscoll_tmp1515]

Bom dia

[@miguelramos3820]

Do que raio estão a falar? Nunca ouvi tal coisa

[@mffmoniz2948]

Eu cresci com "amantigado". Parece que foi barrado com manteiga.

[@sephirothjc]

The fact that we missed cat-sized horses makes me sad.

[@FreedomAnderson]

Have you heard of Thumbelina the Horse? She was a mini Horse with dwarfism.

[@BJCMXY]

There are dog sized horses...

[@evangeloevoxi]

I've been waiting for a video like this for so long! I love hypothesizing about the distant future.... Thank you!!! 💜💙💚

[@mariovwcardoso5970]

check on Science and Futurism with Isaac Arthur. You might like it.

[@jameshill2450]

"We're getting the band back together." "We're on a mission from Gwondana."

[@rockingthemike]

this was a fascinating episode. great work, eons team!

[@butterw55]

6:20 "We're getting the band back together" Can't wait for the Pangea Reunion Album to drop!

[@brianmiller1077]

The bands Asia, Europe and America form a super (continent) group

[@davidrichardbartlett_reeve9760]

Iol😂

[@Jezeus11]

Love this channel! ❤

[@orthochronicity6428]

An episode on multituberculates now seems mandatory -- PBS Eons can't just drop something like that and leave us hanging!

[@AntoniusTyas]

Ah, something Professor Ramirez hasn't heard before. Multituberculates were an extinct group of allotherian mammals that filled the niche now filled by rodents starting from Mid-Jurassic all the way to Late Eocene. Some of the more famous example like _Kamptobaatar_ and _Djadochtatherium_ were found in late Cretaceous Mongolia, while _Cimolodon_ (famously snatched by _Stenonychosaurus_ on the 'Ice World' episode of Prehistoric Planet) was from late Cretaceous USA. I'll be honest were it not for NatGeo's Gobi Expedition in early-to-mid 1990s to study the paleoecology of Djadokhta Formation and Nemegt Formation I wouldn't have known of Multituberculata mammals.

[@Engitainment]

Thank you for explaining that!

[@apexnext]

Yeah I wanted to know what _multituberculates_ were more than the answer. 😂

[@amandaewoldt8205]

The come up repeatedly on the common descent podcast

[@MossyMozart]

@AntoniusTyas - Thank you. So, sort of like pre-rodent rodents. I'll go re-watch that "Prehistoric Planet" episode now and let Mr Attenborough get me excited to see life as it was 66,000,000 ya !

[@LimeyLassen]

"Allotherian" meaning that they weren't placental but they were closely related to placentals.

[@deborahdelgadopugley2316]

I just love you guys! Every time I want to relax and think about something else, I visit your channel and your high-quality videos open my mind! Thanks!

[@bradacker8028]

Thank y'all for these amazingly informative and entertaining videos.

[@ClarkBK67]

What great idea for a video. Loved it. Thank you.

[@peterburridge9346]

I really enjoyed this episode it is right up there with some of, my favourite episodes that everyone involved has made. Well done Eons team❤

[@Nagari2637]

Spoiler alert smh

[@Tyranid_Hive_Mind]

Shouldn't have watched this video. Because I'm watching the previews so i can prepare

[@Morrison-saber-tooth]

The future is wild moment

[@BobPantsSpongeSquare97]

When the octopus went to land and evolved into separate species, one of which began swinging from trees 😂

[@chasingcheetahs5017]

@@BobPantsSpongeSquare97 Octopuses died out in the 100 myf mass extinction presumably, as the squibbon and megasquid are squid as evident by having 2 tentacles and 8 legs. Though, to be fair, the series did imply that the swampus evolved into the terasquid like how amniotes descend from "amphibian" tetrapods.

[@Martha.fokker]

It's just uncertain

[@RocLobo358]

I live on the border of gondwana with many footprints in ancient sand that has been now forced vertical. In Florida you can scuba dive to the old coastline during the ice age. Based on this channel, the only thing you can count on is something will be shaped like a crab.

[@SreejithKSGupta]

😂

[@Cec9e13]

Everything becomes a crab.

[@qazsedcft2162]

Also remember that the Sun is slowly getting warmer as it fuses its hydrogen and while that process is very slow it means it will be about 3% brighter in 300 million years. While that may not seem much it will have a huge impact on the climate of the earth, eventually leading to all oceans evaporating in about a billion years from now.

[@moonbasket]

So cool! Thank you for making this video!

[@minecratsilentbuild5720]

yay another pbs eons video i've been shaken and sweating not getting my fix,

[@stephanieyee9784]

This is a fantastic episode and really interesting.

[@Merrinen]

That multituberculate will come back to haunt us in our dreams. Multiyoutuberculate... Meh multi KZbin chocolate it is.

[@RyansPlasticPlanet]

Another great EONS video! 🥰

[@theascendunt9960]

2:15 Hey, if it swallows up Florida, then it's not so bad after all!

[@Jed-y1c]

Whoo, whoo

[@laurenmendes9087]

Loved this video, thank you

[@alumba]

If even Michelle can't easily say multituberculates, there's no hope for me

[@XiaolinDraconis]

Multi(ee) Tuber Cue Late's

[@monicaisabel4543]

I love this channel!

[@idle_speculation]

4:58 other nearby rifts are growing faster than the one in East Africa, so it’s not likely to split off. Neither are the others, since Africa is on a collision course with southern Europe which will close the Mediterranean.

[@bloodypigeon]

Mediterranean salt desert, here we come!

[@patrick_j_lee]

@@bloodypigeon More like the Mediterranean Mountains, since the closing of the Mediterranean will result in Africa and Europe colliding , pushing up a new Himalaya-sized mountain range.

[@bloodypigeon]

@@patrick_j_lee I believe "The Future is Wild" agrees with us both.

[@bakaneo1]

Love it! Love this show! Love all you guys talking science, it lit my day!

[@susanjane4784]

We must have more Eons more often!

[@NikolasScience]

This episode took me back to The Future is Wild. What a wonderful trip down memory lane! ❤

[@Metawen]

Is anybody else curious about whatever happened to Steve?

[@ge2623]

He was killed in a horrible Bidet accident involving cheap wine and a TON of porn magazines.

[@Metawen]

@@ge2623 a true hero

[@rubenskiii]

Yeah where is Steve?

[@dianewallace6064]

Thank you for this content.

[@RythmicRaindrops]

This is what i want to see yessss

[@cinnamonsunshine9653]

thank you for land acknowledgement. looking forward to more efforts from you

[@ExtremeMadnessX]

Future is Wild...

[@pvazplasen5109]

Thank you ❤

[@Sisteryoda1440]

And now In The Year 2525 will be playing in my brain on repeat.

[@thhseeking]

You're evil :P

[@windlessoriginals1150]

Thank you

[@ethandollarhide7943]

Makes me wish the Future is Wild got more seasons

[@mahavirhardware-w5y]

Great explanation. Watching from INDIA

[@wxman2003]

DMV will still be extremely slow in 300 million years.

[@rellyrob7062]

Were you at the dmv watching this video😂😂 ? They didn’t deserve that stray😂😂😂

[@DeRien8]

I kept thinking carnivorans for the trivia answer, but right at the last sentence of the blooper, I got a flash of inspiration and guessed right! Well, probably more remembered than guessed, given the content I watch on YT

[@geneticon]

THANK YOU for including your note acknowledging indigenous peoples and their land. It's so critical.

[@Martha.fokker]

Yep that's the important thing.

[@6Sparx9]

As an indigenous Avalonian I can assure you we do not care for the pandering.

[@glomi__]

yay this was cool would love to see more on this topic

[@TheTMR68]

It looks like a bunny! 🐰😀I think we should call it Bunnyland.

[@normanmendez636]

The SpecEvo episode! Hurray!

[@lauravansanten7804]

So I guess now we'll need an episode about multituberculates (by Michelle obviously)

[@pangtrilby9286]

Evospec gang unite! Really nice video btw

[@victoriaeads6126]

Maybe we need a video on multituberculates?

[@speed6ump]

Loved seeing my favourite local climbing spots featured in Eons! Palisade Head and Shovel Point in Tettegouche State Park along Lake Superior!

[@llll-lk2mm]

i adore the absolute dedication with which the end notes about invasive research carried out by colonial nations is put out. kudos guys.

[@theonebman7581]

Then you realize those native peoples are also colonizers in their own right (i.e. the Lakota aren't native to the Dakotas area, they invaded, colonized, and displaced the local populations around the late 18th century) The Bantu populations of subsaharian Africa invaded, conquered and colonized the entire area from the native Khoi-San peoples in the 15th century, who have largely gone extinct as a result (with some minor exceptions in South Africa and Namibia), and the Latins and Germans completely wiped out the Celts from Europe in the 4th century Indoeuropeans colonized Eurasia and displaced every almost local population into extinction, with some minor exceptions like the Basque Not to mention the hundreds of human-adjacent species we completely wiped off the map by invading and conquering their lands In the end, that's just humans being humans - there'll always be someone taking someone else's land, there's no one "more native" to a specific piece of land than the rest when we're all colonizers, there's no "culprit" or "victim" here, just humans being humans

[@Kargoneth]

Yes. Humans always replace other humans.

[@indiealaska]

Love these animations!

[@TheInselaffen]

All hail the rise of the Squibbons.

[@asherburns2953]

Excellent channel

[@l.a.gothro3999]

I'm sad that I'm not going to be around to see all this come to pass.

[@bryaneberly3588]

we'll have a viable type of vampirism soon, i hope.

[@AdDewaard-hu3xk]

I'm happy not to.

[@l.a.gothro3999]

@@bryaneberly3588 eh, I couldn't hang with that, it'd drive me bats.

[@Winter_Fan_01]

Finally, something I have been asking (myself) for years

[@301_tyron5]

300 million years is longer than modern human civilization. We’ll either all be dead or we’ll have successfully colonized other planets..interesting video

[@sayvionwashington1939]

We'll have evolved into a different species who knows how many times over by that point.

[@nicholashylton6857]

Humans invented civilization about 10,000 years ago. That's like, 2 seconds ago in geologic time. 300 million years is about 1000 times longer than our species has existed.

[@ecurewitz]

We’ll be dead

[@darth856]

To say it is longer is an understatement. If our descendants are still alive 300 million years from now, they will be totally unrecognicable compared to us.

[@nicholaskelly1958]

​​@@darth856We will have (provided that we don't nuke ourselves) evolved into machine intelligence long long before that!

[@MrEmoImo]

This was a cool video. Thanks!

[@macandrewes]

A 50 m rise in sea levels would be catastrophic, but the fact that it's going to completely submerge Florida makes it a worthwhile trade off

[@SophiaPerpetua]

The original documentary on the cane toad that came out years ago (1988) is really worth seeing; it was quite entertaining. I will check out this one as well.

[@dracodracarys2339]

if there were no more vertebrates then, what's the next likeliest clade that could become the dominant megafauna?

[@ExtremeMadnessX]

🦀 🦀 🦀 🦀 🦀 🦀 🦀 🦀

[@Renisanxious]

While Arthropods as a whole is probably the best estimate, honestly I wouldn't be surprised by cephalopods either. Probably a combination of both

[@patreekotime4578]

​@@ExtremeMadnessX you can find them down at the combination arthropod cephalapod store.

[@EksaStelmere]

The time of Cnidarian bone slimes is nigh, child. They descend from the Khorallian neogels which should arise around AD 198M~202M ±4M.

[@edmondantes4338]

Arthropods already were for a while and could easily become again in a (geologic) heartbeat. However having an internal skeleton is massively advantageous if you want to grow really big so something is eventually gonna end up convergently evolving a vertebrate-like skeletal structure.

[@ProfessorUmbreon]

I love this channel so much! I think I'm going to try to get a PHD in paleontology. As well; could you do more videos on ancient bats and how certain traits evolved in them? They're really cool, peculiar creatures, and I'd love to know more about how they came to be. 😊 🦇

[@jaimiecarpediemer]

Is anyone else feeling absolutely crushed after seeing the footage of that poor polar bear floating around 😢

[@StoffelDilligas]

I would "like" your comment, but it seems wrong to "like" it. But, no. You are not alone in feeling that. I fully agree with you.

[@brambleheart]

@@StoffelDilligasLiking comments also means that you agree with the point made in the comment

[@StoffelDilligas]

@@brambleheart fully aware of that. Thanks for the reminder

[@caseyleichter2309]

What's happening to our cold-dependent species guts me all the time. Polar bears, penguins, cetaceans...I hate it.

[@jaimiecarpediemer]

Thank you all for letting me know I’m not alone. 💚 sending love to all

[@franciscomilitao8947]

Amazing!

[@tripledair]

Who's here in 4024?

[@camille4021]

Earth

[@MrBlandUsername]

024.M41

[@ricke6854]

Humans long extinct by then

[@29jgirl92]

It's still so crazy to me that the continents, the biggest land masses on earth, move!!! Like intellectually I understand why, but there is till a part of me that doesn't understand how they aren't bolted down!

[@KT-xd9yt]

This woman is one of my favorite youtubers. She has a great screen presence

[@Kr-nv5fo]

She has an excellent, commanding voice with wide range of frequencies.

[@frogboyclips]

The future is wild

[@billkallas1762]

Since our sun is getting hotter and hotter every year, and Earth will enter into what I call the "Great Boiling" in 700-900 million years, what will the average temperatures be on the Earth in 300 million years?? Will complex life be able to survive at the Equator??

[@patreekotime4578]

I guess is depends on which direction the supercontinent drifts... if it is entirely polar, which seems likely, then there wont be much land near the equator anyway.

[@saviourojukwu893]

Most scientist put this about 1.1 billion years from now where almost all of earth oceans evaporate away

[@ryanbuxton756]

The difference between before and now is human intervention we have no idea what humans are going to accomplish going forward to either prevent or cause in the coming future since we humans have the ability to manipulate the environment around us at will and we are only getting better at it we may not colonize something but if we have the technology to colonize something we have the technology to prevent or change the planet we live on

[@mathildetanghe865]

Nothing to do with the video but i really like your outfits!! Always looking fab and stunning ❤

[@LightBlueVans]

your fit make you look like a modern Alt Belle! i love it🥰

[@StephanosBlack]

That was Amasiaing

[@oldmangreywolf6892]

I take it this is predictions while we still have our moon. It still continues to move away 2 inches a year. The further it goes also starts to have less effect on the tides.

[@auroraourania7161]

If you get into the astronomy things get real weird on these time scales. Although my understanding is the moon will probably still be orbiting the Earth, albeit in a much larger orbit, when the sun expands and potentially destroys both. A significant thing that they didn't mention is that, while the specifics aren't super clear (especially since the past geological record doesn't seem that consistent with how we know stars evolve), by 300 million years from now the sun will be a pretty decent amount brighter and put out a lot more heat. It won't be to the point of animals no longer being able to exist (That's probably around 700 million years in the future), we can expect the temperature of Amasia to be even hotter than pangea's was. I could imagine it being so hot that the interior is completely uninhabitable for complex life

[@andresmieles7017]

Gran video, debería haber una segunda parte

[@Shantosh9550]

Pls do an ep on when India was an island before it crashes into Asia.

[@brianlovesart]

As fascinating as stuff like this is, I kind of miss when we had more Eons episodes about specific extinct animals.

[@BigWolf130]

In 3 million years cats will evolve in to humanoids. lol

[@controlman7490]

And they'll ride horses and hunt humans. Planet of the cats.

[@NathanSpiwak]

Was the trivia question from THE Matt Parker?? Standup Maths is another favorite channel.

[@mattparker7932]

No. We share a name. But this was from me, not him.

[@guilhermemayersoares]

And what about the sun? Is 300 MY enough for it to get hotter and break the comparisons with 300 MY in the past? Because although we are not the ending page of earth's history, I think we peaked the Sun's lifetime, which means conditions will get harder for life to evolve big things more and more, until only tiny extremophiles will be able to live here.

[@adriancadena2887]

Whenever I feel anxious about climate change and our environmental impact I turn to these videos to remind me how insignificant our time is in geological terms. Hundreds of millions of years from now, an intelligent species might learn how the world looked in past and study our civilization. "Did you know, there used to be many more (or fewer) continents 200 million years ago?," something like that.That's very exiting to think about, imo.

[@6Sparx9]

Don't be anxious about climate change. As for environmental impact, do what you can :) it may be small but it's not nothing.

[@douglasboyle6544]

"Sudden Warming Shrinks Mammals" Finally an upside to Climate Change, I seriously need to lose a few pounds

[@poulthomas469]

The amount of time is just mind boggling.

[@gaemlinsidoharthi]

I don’t hear any “Australia” in “Amasia”, just America and Asia. Could we go with “Amalasia” instead?

[@world-news-network]

I never knew about this supercontinent cycle where the continents repeatedly join then split over roughly 600 million years. That's an amazing piece of information.

[@BrunoGabrielAraujoLebtag]

Steve...

[@DFloyd84]

He got zapped 300 million years into the future.

[@rickcharlespersonal]

I would not mind it if Eons started a whole series speculating future geology and biology in more specific detail.