What Will Earth Be Like 300 Million Years From Now?

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We spend a lot of time here on Eons looking backwards into deep time, visiting ancient chapters of our planet’s history. But this time, we’re taking a look towards the deep future. After all, the story is far from over.
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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

[@blogsytjr3390]

Me!

[@user-qy3jq9kr1d]

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.

[@horuswasright]

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.

[@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.

[@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

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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

[@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!

[@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.

[@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!

[@kailawkamo1568]

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

[@nsnopper]

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

[@Kashype101]

Lol weird episode that was

[@jameshill2450]

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

[@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

[@icekangaroo9392]

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

[@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

[@nagari9093]

Spoiler alert smh

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@alumba]

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

[@XiaolinDraconis]

Multi(ee) Tuber Cue Late's

[@rockingthemike]

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

[@Morrison-saber-tooth]

The future is wild moment

[@Spongebrain97]

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

[@chasingcheetahs5017]

@@Spongebrain97 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

[@stinew358]

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]

😂

[@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.

[@Jezeus11]

Love this channel! ❤

[@Merrinen]

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

[@bradacker8028]

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

[@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❤

[@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!

[@patricklee5239]

@@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]

@@patricklee5239 I believe "The Future is Wild" agrees with us both.

[@orthochronicity6428]

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

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

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

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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!

[@moonbasket]

So cool! Thank you for making this video!

[@KnickKnacksPlasticPlanet]

Another great EONS video! 🥰

[@susanjane4784]

We must have more Eons more often!

[@laurenmendes9087]

Loved this video, thank you

[@glomi__]

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

[@lauravansanten7804]

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

[@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

[@stephanieyee9784]

This is a fantastic episode and really interesting.

[@ethandollarhide7943]

Makes me wish the Future is Wild got more seasons

[@pvazplasen5109]

Thank you ❤

[@RythmicRaindrops]

This is what i want to see yessss

[@Winter_Fan_01]

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

[@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!

[@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.

[@manolios]

it is amazing how these models try to predict earth in 100 millions years from now, while there is no a reliable model to predict next year or even next 10 years, with accuracy. Sometimes we cannot even predict the weather tomorrow

[@brianlefko4404]

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

[@TheTMR68]

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

[@brucewayne000]

Awesome content!!

[@MrEmoImo]

This was a cool video. Thanks!

[@windlessoriginals1150]

Thank you

[@bakaneo1]

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

[@pangtrilby9286]

Evospec gang unite! Really nice video btw

[@TheMattsem]

We need the planet to survive but the planet doesn't need us to survive

[@lepidoptera9337]

The planet won't survive, either. It will be getting hotter, then eventually go through a phase like Venus and at the end it will be swallowed by the son. That's just a typical lifecycle in the universe. Nothing to get excited about.

[@johnkrappweis7367]

When you mentioned that North American rift it immediately reminded me of that Harry Turtledove series of novels about Atlantis.

[@pollytiks3885]

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

[@thhseeking]

You're evil :P

[@rickcharlespersonal]

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

[@normanmendez636]

The SpecEvo episode! Hurray!

[@speed6ump]

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

[@ExtremeMadnessX]

Future is Wild...

[@monicaisabel4543]

I love this channel!

[@arikorah2497]

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. 😊 🦇

[@MikeJones-rk1un]

I'm still getting ready for the ice age they warned us about in the 1980s.

[@GiantEagle610]

One sad episode of the Future is Wild, all the mammalian species have all but disappeared, leaving only a tiny rodent like mammal eking out a living in the dark and being prayed on by spiders😢

[@istvansipos9940]

prEyed on. And, no offense, it was a funny typo. I visualized a spider church, too.

[@GiantEagle610]

@@istvansipos9940 haha, just noticed it. Thanks for pointing it out. Will leave it unedited and perhaps make others laugh

[@franciscomilitao8947]

Amazing!

[@Metalkatt]

What would happen to Antarctica if we get an East African Ocean? How will that affect the circumpolar current that keeps cold water in place?

[@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.

[@poulthomas469]

The amount of time is just mind boggling.

[@TragoudistrosMPH]

8:39 Fossil evidence for hotsprings and other subterranean water sources? That would be interesting! 🤔 (I've been to hotsprings in the desert)

[@jakubbrown3521]

I would love to see an episode about Lake Bonneville that used to cover most of Utah

[@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!

[@charlesjmouse]

Thank you. An episode, or better yet a series, on multituberculates would be excellent. Still the most long-lasting mammal group, even though they are now almost certainly extinct. Often compared to rodents, but they were probably less gnawers and more 'tweezer teeth' - a niche that doesn't really exist today among mammals.

[@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.

[@p_mouse8676]

Ironic topic, since the current timeline is based on some very random moments in time. So random in fact that we most likely wouldn't be around here to begin with.

[@Nmethyltransferase]

The Acid Trip Episode _[The Future Is Wild Theme Intensifies]_

[@rapauli]

How is it that you expect the heat to level off? There is no reason for heat to stop, every reason that heat will continue to rise. Like the planet Venus.

[@epiceducation867]

me: I wish I lived on an island Descendant 10 Mya later: uhhh about that

[@oravlaful]

i don't know if you have a video on that, but i'd love to understand how we actually know the path of the tectonic plates throughout earth's history

[@waterbottle82730]

watching this well writing a book helps to have some paleo stuff lol

[@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.

[@michaelbiscay9836]

"Today, we're looking far into the future. " "The future, EONS?" "That's right. We're looking all the way to the year... 2000."

[@sohopedeco]

And here was I, assuming multituberculates were some kind of potato. 🥔

[@bluedragon219123]

Honestly we already had a Super Continent during the Last Glacial Maxium with only Australia and Antarctica, though it was likely connected to South America via Glaciers, not being fully connected but where still very, relatively, close. Still Great Job on the Video! :)

[@theonebman7581]

You could actually count Afroeurasia and the Americas right now as supercontinents when you think of it

[@AndrewTBP]

Nonsense.

[@Metawen]

Is anybody else curious about whatever happened to Steve?

[@Replicaate]

The amount of people making The Future is Wild references warms my heart.

[@StephanosBlack]

That was Amasiaing

[@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.

[@sapphirII]

I was expecting a different rundown by the different temperature differences at the start of the video.

[@Lorachzwan]

Man, am I really gonna miss out on those cool events? That sucks but at least my imagination can take me far enough into thinking how it might look like

[@AcornElectron]

We’ve been here a few thousand years and only technologically developing over a few hundred years. I think this is quite speculative.

[@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.

[@airrocker001]

I'll be around

[@multiyapples]

I’ve always wondered what the future holds.

[@SiliconChemist]

*Hears the name 'Herrerasaurus'* *grabs popcorn*

[@BZAKether]

I can't believe I got this one right "Multi tube... multi tubes... sounds like many tubes... the mammals who make tube-like structures are... rodents?". Got it right for once.

[@daankw]

So based on this, what current landforms will exist the longest in the future? For example, at some places really old sediments are found while in other places relatively new are found.

[@jacksonstarky8288]

Honestly, I wasn't even expecting a multituberculate to be a vertebrate. Interesting.

[@colonelgraff9198]

0:30 watch Chicago Mountain