I still don't understand how WE die out. We're the most adaptable species on earth, followed by what i would guess to be rats or raccoon, but seriously, what happened to us and the rest of the mammals. And don't give me that crap about nuclear war. I know some people are stupid what honestly what is the likelihood that such a thing will happen?
Seriously, don't count mammals out so quickly. They've been around for 200 million years, and the primitive mammal-like reptiles have existed for some 275-300 million years depending on where you draw the line. Even when they were only small rat-like things during the Mesozoic, there were a huge number of different mammal lineages living quite successfully despite being eaten and stepped on by dinosaurs.
@thediremoose yeah and also couldn't mammals have evolved lets say into something more advanced than mammals? Like reptiles evolved into mammals, mammals could evolve into something else just like reptiles did. Right?
the mammals died out in this series but with evolution nobody can be sure what happens, for 65 million years ago when the meteor hit the earth not all the dinosurs died some of them evolved into birds, that could happend to mammals too, but nobody knows (of course :))
Guys/Girls fur is hard to animate in CGI cut them some slack for killing off the mammals cause if they had not the show would have been too expensive to make okay.
mammals are more adaptable than insects and arachnids and birds and im very suprised that not on any of these episodes they didnt show any evolution of equines or any plain-dwelling animal for that matter!
@GeoffreyRahl Well, maybe the future squibbons evolve their intelligence and make porn again... Which would look somewhat like erm... Hentai, of course...
Anyways, by 200 million years into the future, you and I will be already dead, so don't worry.
wait a minute a turtle can rule but mammals can't! that is the annoying thing about the series is they let mammals die and birds live! And when they were alive they showed bull crap mammals like monkeys or they said hoof mammals would die and many bears and tigers die. this series just hates mammals!!!! when they are the most awesome creatures ever (other than dinosaurs)
@jugarify1 Spiers are inteligent enough to construct complex structures as their webs, so in 100 mlny who knows what their evolution will bring forth to the table... Farming is not exclusive to humans - termites, which are closer relatives to spiders than humans, farm leaches and mushrooms.
@buticanyou What do you mean by "more superior"? Many mammals have a high level of intelligence compared to other animals. Many are also highly adaptable, pigs for example. Others are too specialized to "adjust", like polar bears. You have made a couple of broad generalizations, back them up.
NOOOOOOOO! My darling platypus have gone extinct!!! Nooooooooooooo! Ah well, birds are my favorite clad of animals anyway! Hahahah birds and reptiles > mammals!!!!
Shut up with the whining, Dinosaurs became birds, birds are dinosaur but yet dinosaurs are technically extinct.
Now shut up and look at this: Mammals became neomammals (or whatever you like to call it), neomammals are mammals, but mammals are technically extinct. Now, do that for every other major group that went extinct. geez.
But mammals are good for every climate except hot climate. Sweating is already bad, panting is worse. Rodents WILL be the last mammals around.
im sorry but i cannot agree that a: mammals are doing badly, or b: that they will die out. mammals have servived several extintions, including the one that wiped out the dinnosaurs. and rorandas like rats are doing very well, so saying that they will die out is rediculous. they may evoulvate into something else, but i don't believe thay will die out.
It could happen! Dinosaurs (non-avian) completely dominated the planet for 160 million years. Towards the end of their reign though, volcanic activity began to push them towards extinction...then, of coarse, came the asteroid. However, what this series does NOT take into any account is how human beings are vastly changing the way the world works now. There is a serious underestimation on what part we may play on the future of life on Earth...and whether we have the power to extend life beyond it
@luna1632 Actually (believe it or not), Dinosaurs were not Reptiles. I'll repeat that, Dinosaurs were NOT reptiles. They shared a common Reptilian ancestor (like Birds and Mammals) but they themselves are classed as Dinosaura, a different class from Reptiles I'm afraid. What they did get wrong in this series was that perhaps a certain branch of Mammals could evolve to be different and survive...or the world could end in 2012! ;)
Ah-ah. I doubt that mammals will die out so utterly even in a hundred million years from now. They're just too good, too adaptible. TFIW has just been taking liberties with evolutionary possibilities.
they're acting on the assumption of a long period of warming. if that happens the mammals' advantage, being warm blooded, will be moot. insects, reptiles and amphibians will be more active all the time, and our advantage will be gone. it's a reasonable point, in my opinion, if the warming continues.
this is what MIGHT happen many many centuries from now not what WILL happen, and i think with the way we kill animals of all sorts today the humans might even see the day that only a handful of mammals are alive.
Dumbasses! Mammals are warm-blooded and need a higher consumption of calories to survive. Since the scientist have displaced their "fictional" future of the Earth as being more hotter with less food abundance, mammals are losing in the circle of life! Furthermore, mammals can't produce as fast or as much offspring like other lifeforms and their adaptable capabilities are slower as well in comparison to insects, birds, reptile, and pretty much everything organic on this planet; ignor-asses mayne!
@VexT916 Thank god.... When I saw 16 people had agreed with that, it shocked me. How can so many people claim to "believe in evolution' when they understand nothing about how it works and the inevitabilities it produces? Like religious who worship science. It's eerie.
@OneLazyNinja Yea man no prob... glad you saw in a different perspective too. Mark Twain once quoted, "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
I am sorry but TFIW can be stupid sometimes. The scientist they choose have problems finding the right words. They are blind to see Mammalian evolution completely. And for the Earthquake, all they did was roll rocks down a mountain. Not to mention the CGI is faulty.
Mammals going extinct is unreasonable. The only reason mammals are dying out is due to the Holocene extinction and the super variable environment of the Quaternary. They are so dumb they think bats are rodents!
@Scoinsoffaterocks Ok. So I learned something today. While i always knew bats weren't rodents, I assumed they were at least related to rodents. Turns out, at least by accounts of some sources, they are actually more closely related to primates than rodents.
Oh no, that's not right at all! Get this, Mammals are divided into 2/3 (debatable) sub-classes. One of them, Eutheria(placentals) is divided into 4 extant(meaning living) infra-classes, Eurachontglires, Laurasiatheria, Afrotheria, & Xenarthra. Primates and rodents belong to Eurachontglires(primates being an Eurachont, rodents being a Glires) while bats belong to Laurasiatheria, along with hoofed animals, whales, carinivorans(cat,dog), moles, and much more. See Wikipedia.
wasn't there once a bit on the windrunners having a sort of second eyelid that closed over the eye and acted like sunglasses. Did i miss that or was that cut out of this episode?
(i'm completely baked so it is a very real possibility that i missed it...)
The whole "mammals being wiped off the Earth" isn't so ridiculous as first thought. 530 million years ago during the Permian explosion, there was no Reptiles, no Mammals, no Birds. Fish, Arthropods, sponges cephalopods dominated the oceans. Mammals, Reptiles etc appeared on the planet through evolving families of the latter.
So, if nature is able to create these vertebrate families; what is going to stop it from taking them out of the picture?
An asteroid hits the planet and kills like 99.8 % per cent of all life- mammals live on and conquire the planet. Carbon dioxide emissions increase and a few volcanos blow up- they die? WTF?
The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs killed only 70% of all life. The Permian extinction (which was caused by volcanic eruptions) killed 95% of all life.
@Hyak44 He wanted the future to look as weird a possible, so naturally he bumped off first primates, then mammals, then vertebrates altogether.
In reality, vertebrates wouldn't have dominated for the last 500 million years if they weren't a fundamentally better, more-adaptable design; so it's logical to assume they will dominate in the future (but then the "200 million years in the future" segment wouldn't have been so "far out.")
@Hyak44 The mammals are doing bad now and its partly because of us, some species just dont bouce back, sad but true. The time of mammals may very well be over, which is sad ill admit because we ourselves are mammals but every species has times its most and least successful. Reptiles had their time as the dinos, amphibians were successful near the beginning of life on earth, mammals had their age after dinos and even birds ruled south america for a while. Accept we mammals arent the best dude lol
What made mammals so successful after dinos was our higher intelligence and rapid evolution as small rodents with short generation spans. We could adapt faster to changes in the environment, instead of having to always evolve. I think the show does present a good argument that squid / octopus may be a future contender, but completely replacing mammals doesn't sound right. If anyone has had mice / rat problems in their home, they'd know that they really are the future contender.
Keep in mind though that when Oxygen levels get higher both bugs and reptiles tend to grow much larger then they are today. The lower oxygen levels after the K-T boundary may have had a lot to do with the fact that mammals have done so well : D
@Veetoria That's true, but I can't see why mammals wouldn't evolve as well. Even if we go through periods where we no longer reign supreme, I can't see us just going extinct. Even dinosaurs are still abundant in the form of birds, so to say that dinosaurs went extinct would technically be inaccurate. Mammals have been evolving for 540 million years and yet this movie says we'll be nearly extinct in just 100 million years.
@Veetoria Size doesn't count for much versus brainpower. Mammals have far more complex brains than bugs or reptiles (not to mention cephalopods) so they will always have a competitive advantage over such cold-blooded creatures.
I disagree. Size can and does count for a lot. Brain power or no, if the environment changes drastically, it is usually the smaller animals that tend to survive it because their needs for survival are much smaller and they can hide and such. Brain power does count for a fair bit, but there are many factors involved. Raptors were believed to be rediculously intelligent and yet, went extinct.
I in all of this show «The future is wild» i've only seen the oddest creatures survive, Why? and i mean when dinos were extinct bugs didn't occupied there place because mammals were already eating them so thousonds of ears ago mammals and birds started already of a food chain were bugs were in the bottom. Mammals are the dominant species so it's going to need a catastrofic event to kill all mammals (humans included). It was needed a 9km wide meteor to kill the dinos and they evolved to birds.
sooo... cats, apes, all types of rodents, any mammel at all except for dis tiny mouse creature will all go extinct. i agree dats bs. how all other species get larger because of oxygen and we get smaller... wtf... and watching all these they tryna say wales, dolphins, sharks, and other sea mammals will die out too? common now sharks are one of da earliest preditors dat havent really changed at all. what really makes you think they are going aywhere anytime in da earths existance.
@demo73 Mammals' major advantage today is fur and warm blood. We are well suited to both cold and heat and thus thrive in today's largely temperate climate.
The program is saying that in 100 million years the world will be very hot and moist and swampy. Mammals might be able to live in such conditions, but other animals can do a much better job of it, and we'd eventually get pushed aside.
Mammals aren't gonna die out like this. Humans are gonna survive, no doubt about it, and we'll keep our mammal pets with us (cats, dogs, etc.) because we like taking care of other species. So mammals will not die out because of us humans. On the other hand, we probably all took to space and left Earth by now, so mammals still exist, just not on Earth.
@bioniclefan4life Humans will no doubt do well in the future, as our intelligence makes us arguably the most adaptable species on the planet.
However, this program is based on the assumption that humans mysteriously vanished without a trace.
As things are going now, I'd bet the only true biodiversity we'll have in a few thousand years is humans, their chattel (pets, farm animals), and synanthropes like sparrows, rats, and roaches.
Without a doubt, many species will be wiped out by the coming ice age. As for your first statement, taking to space taking all our possessions and mechanisms with us is the same is mysteriously vanishing.
they're pseudointellectuals arthropods have gone completely downhill in evolution since before the age of dinosaurs whereas mammals are only becoming better
@BELEIVEIT1 possible, but the mammal is about the most perfect design of all families of animal we have warm blood and we produce our own body and insects birds and reptiles are on the decline the they're implying in this series that fish and cephalapods will evolve to not need water if that was that was the case then they wouldn't be the same family of animals.
@nickyboy22071989 however, mammals started rising to power sometime after the dinosaurs went extinct. sure they have many advantages compared to reptiles and amphibians. but like they said, rodents have the best chances of being the last mammals because in some ways they are better at adapting than us. i think that reptiles, fish and amphibians still have the potential to evolve into something that would drive the mammals to extinction, let alone insects who will probably rule the world again
@nickyboy22071989 Mammals are not the most perfect animal group ever. I believe that title belongs to insects, which aren't on the decline, and will probably be around long after last recognizable mammal takes its last breath.
@nickyboy22071989 Care to explain WHY? (My argument against this is on the previous segment.) If you understand anything about evolution you'll understand that eventually ALL species go extinct (this is what drives CHANGE - the arms race that sexual reproduction triggered) You sound like a religious person. It's not a question of emotional attachment. it's a simple question of how things work.
think about it if humans became extinct just about everything else would flourish in our absence, mammals wuld evolve to new heights mammals are the closest thing to a perfect design, we produce our own body heat give birth to live young and produce our own food for them.
@nickyboy22071989 Possibly true as our geological finds of fossil have proven already, but will any of them ever surmount to travel the stars? Or even build a simple device as a wheel? Possible, but not questionable.
@nickyboy22071989 perfect design? there is no perfect design. different circumstances give rise to different designs. producing your own heat helps great when it is cold, but is a major burden when it gets hot. giving birth to live young and feeding them helps them survive. but when predation is almost a certainty it is better to mass produce offspring who can look after themselves. because then the predators will leave the majority alone because they are just stuffed.
@nickyboy22071989 I agree that rodents would survive the longest. Quite honestly, most mammals today are not adaptable enough for a much hotter climate. Birds and reptiles are. The bigger outrage isn't in this happening, it's in the show having pretty much all vertebrates going extinct. I find that unnecessary - nothing like that has ever happened on Earth before.
@nickyboy22071989 well it is that mammals are the weakest and the less developt groep of animals on the planet and they whud be easy to go extinct because they aren`t as strong as the others types of animals like insects and spiders, but a mass extinction is neaded to make them extinct and even with that i think thare will be at least 1 mammal left befor the go compleatly extinct
I'm not buying this ''mammals all going extinct'' thing. Mammals have all died out but there's still birds. lol wut? Anyway, it's most likely that mammals would have given rise to another group before going extinct.
@PhantomSephiroth Mammals are perhaps the most adaptable, but they have limited ranges. We tend to do very well only in cold environments. Our hey day was the ice age. Mammals were colossal and powerful. Like they said ALOT of endangered creatures are mammal. Alot of that is humanities' fault. But almost every other form of life except birds LOVES heat. The hotter the better. It's how insects grew to be 10 feet long, and how dinosaurs dominated. Mammals won't handle the heat as well as cold.
@vampiremessiah51 Huh? mammal can do very well in heat and have develope brilliant adaptations to it. We are a perfect exemple, for Homo sapiens has evolved the most efficiant cooling systeme. Heat dosen't seem to be bottering the mammals of Africa and it seems it wasen't any problem for those living during the jurassic and cretacious period, which were even hotter than today. Sure mammals aren't doing good today, but EVERY group is doing bad, even insects.
@vampiremessiah51 prehistoric insects grew to immense proportions because of the abundance of oxygen in the atmosphere, not because of high temperatures.
Just for the record though, I am not saying this refutes the rest of what you posted.
@PhantomSephiroth Not necessarily, there are whole groups of animals that have gone extinct without giving rise to other animals. Trilobites, ammonites, and plesiosaurs, and pterosaurs all come to mind. Evolution is not necessarily a straight progression. And iirc mammals actually have fewer species than other classes, especially compared to amphibians, reptiles, birds etc.
@Velox415 You do realise that Amphibians, birds and reptiles are in trouble to. Some are even having it harder than mammals, even crocodilians are heading for extinction. The point is, they are saying that '' mammals aren't doing so good'' but fact is NO group is doing good thanks to the human infestation. Mammals are one, if not the most adaptable order and if humans were to go extinct, they would easily recover and diversify again.
@PhantomSephiroth i know! in the later episodes they say reptiles, birds, and amphibians are gone, too! i can understand amphibians, but the idea that the other two will be gone is total bs! those guys are FAR too adaptable and advanced to die out!
this episode was were The Future is Wild went completely WRONG (at least in my opinion) mammals are one of the most successful class of animals and will NOT be replaced with squids. Subclasses and superorders have been wiped out, but right now mammals are the most diverse creatures ever. But then again look what happened to the synapsids
But most compare mamals with others. Reptiles and fishes are very adaptive(with a few exceptions). Amphibians, although seemingly incapable, managed to survive very long.
Aves and mamals on the other hand, are already under serious problems. Most creatures that are going extinct are mamals or aves.
@turtlesoviet yes, maybe, but mammals were the biggest group of tetrapod survivors after the KT extinction, and they survived the original oven-hot Earth right after the comet hit, then the freezing cold after the dust and ash blocked the sun for years
Agreed; I think they are exagerating with these, of that is going to be just one species of mammals all around the globe. I think there will be more species, maybe 3 or 5 more species of mammals, maybe more.
@Mrjohn5533 It may not be an exageration, they are taking into the equation the damage we have done to the mammals as well. Weve hurt all animal types but many could argue weve hit mammals the hardest. So they may have even thrived after us if we hadnt weakened them first, allowing other less human hurt species to simply outnumber and overpower the mammals before they could bounce back from whatever killed humans as well in this world
@Mrjohn5533 I gotta disagree, as they say mammals are doing badly today and anyone can see why poaching, hunting, and polution by us would essentially harm mammals to the point where even after we're gone the mammals will never 100% bounce back, too many species are gone or near gone.
I think most mammals would be able to adapt successfully to survive. But hey, that's just me... I'm not a scientist, but I doubt that mammals will die out that quickly...
They became birds and now they're lunch. Anyway I seriously doubt that insects would be able to take us down. If increased O2 makes them bigger same goes for us. Increased heat? No problem, big ears. Mammals have succesfully adapted to more habitats than any other animals. We win and we eat whatever loses.
I still don't understand how WE die out. We're the most adaptable species on earth, followed by what i would guess to be rats or raccoon, but seriously, what happened to us and the rest of the mammals. And don't give me that crap about nuclear war. I know some people are stupid what honestly what is the likelihood that such a thing will happen?
MrMountainFace 19 hours ago
The mammals will rise again!!! And wolves will one again thrive! or at least wolf like creatures will :/
DisturbedZelda 5 days ago
Poor little poggle
Shermantankfan 3 weeks ago
Now I want a Puggle!
LevittownPaIsSpecial 1 month ago
WHY CAN THE POGGLES FARM THE SILVER SPIDERS AND THEN EAT THEM AND THEY EAT THE SPIDERS AND SPIDERS EAT THE SEEDS!
MegaDinoFreak 1 month ago
this might be rude to say, but i can't stand that woman's accent >.< no disrespect, though.
mkocja5a 1 month ago
I'll remember this next time I get the urge to step on a spider... or rather get the urge not to...
Kingucktoad 2 months ago in playlist The Future is Wild
Seriously, don't count mammals out so quickly. They've been around for 200 million years, and the primitive mammal-like reptiles have existed for some 275-300 million years depending on where you draw the line. Even when they were only small rat-like things during the Mesozoic, there were a huge number of different mammal lineages living quite successfully despite being eaten and stepped on by dinosaurs.
thediremoose 3 months ago 2
@thediremoose yeah and also couldn't mammals have evolved lets say into something more advanced than mammals? Like reptiles evolved into mammals, mammals could evolve into something else just like reptiles did. Right?
xtcarnage15586 2 months ago
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obenrob 3 months ago
the mammals died out in this series but with evolution nobody can be sure what happens, for 65 million years ago when the meteor hit the earth not all the dinosurs died some of them evolved into birds, that could happend to mammals too, but nobody knows (of course :))
niIIer1 4 months ago
Guys/Girls fur is hard to animate in CGI cut them some slack for killing off the mammals cause if they had not the show would have been too expensive to make okay.
crerul 4 months ago 3
you people dont get it.
this is a real future time line.
not one with sympathy.
life and nature have no sympathy.
shoshanish 5 months ago
mammals are more adaptable than insects and arachnids and birds and im very suprised that not on any of these episodes they didnt show any evolution of equines or any plain-dwelling animal for that matter!
HANWIND100 5 months ago
the guy with the beard and the bow tie makes me happy
pinkGr8white 5 months ago
Mammals going near extinct! Oh no do you realise that means no more boobies?
GeoffreyRahl 6 months ago 18
@GeoffreyRahl NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
EternalCrappyKid 3 months ago
@GeoffreyRahl Well, maybe the future squibbons evolve their intelligence and make porn again... Which would look somewhat like erm... Hentai, of course...
Anyways, by 200 million years into the future, you and I will be already dead, so don't worry.
Strixlord 2 months ago
@Strixlord Only good if you're into tentacle rape though.
thediremoose 2 months ago
Who would be cruel enough to make mammals die? :(
Peenut2k7 6 months ago
wait a minute a turtle can rule but mammals can't! that is the annoying thing about the series is they let mammals die and birds live! And when they were alive they showed bull crap mammals like monkeys or they said hoof mammals would die and many bears and tigers die. this series just hates mammals!!!! when they are the most awesome creatures ever (other than dinosaurs)
lifeform106 6 months ago
@jugarify1 Spiers are inteligent enough to construct complex structures as their webs, so in 100 mlny who knows what their evolution will bring forth to the table... Farming is not exclusive to humans - termites, which are closer relatives to spiders than humans, farm leaches and mushrooms.
hekata5 6 months ago
This has to be the most beautiful episode of the series, or at least the most beautiful I've seen so far.
Shimmering four-winged blue cranes, arches of bamboo, and seed-harvesting silver spiders, all up in spectacular mountains!
WireMosasaur 7 months ago
stupid poachers... its thier fualt that all mammals are extict. Poggles, are pretty cute though.
haocheng0811 7 months ago
mammals can't adjust, it's simple as that. They will be out played by more superior animals.
buticanyou 7 months ago
@buticanyou What do you mean by "more superior"? Many mammals have a high level of intelligence compared to other animals. Many are also highly adaptable, pigs for example. Others are too specialized to "adjust", like polar bears. You have made a couple of broad generalizations, back them up.
danielthethiel 7 months ago
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TheJimozu 7 months ago
NOOOOOOOO! My darling platypus have gone extinct!!! Nooooooooooooo! Ah well, birds are my favorite clad of animals anyway! Hahahah birds and reptiles > mammals!!!!
mrpoppler2 8 months ago
mamels survived several other extinctions i dont see why they would die out
grey9438 8 months ago
Mammals would survive because mammals can live UNDERGROUND!!
Moles live UNDERGROUND, none of those mass extinctions that they showed on this show would have killed the mammals that live UNDERGROUND!!!
imsocool7222 8 months ago
@imsocool7222 Not just the ones underground, there are also the rats and mice. everyone knows how notoriously hard they are to exterminate.
ratrule00 8 months ago
Because everibody say we will be extint because of are technology,but i realy dont think that will happend
ultrashnotebel 8 months ago
I dont know i have watch the entire series,but can someone explain me wy will we be extint,us,humans?
ultrashnotebel 8 months ago
Shut up with the whining, Dinosaurs became birds, birds are dinosaur but yet dinosaurs are technically extinct.
Now shut up and look at this: Mammals became neomammals (or whatever you like to call it), neomammals are mammals, but mammals are technically extinct. Now, do that for every other major group that went extinct. geez.
But mammals are good for every climate except hot climate. Sweating is already bad, panting is worse. Rodents WILL be the last mammals around.
111E982a 9 months ago
im sorry but i cannot agree that a: mammals are doing badly, or b: that they will die out. mammals have servived several extintions, including the one that wiped out the dinnosaurs. and rorandas like rats are doing very well, so saying that they will die out is rediculous. they may evoulvate into something else, but i don't believe thay will die out.
luna1632 9 months ago
It could happen! Dinosaurs (non-avian) completely dominated the planet for 160 million years. Towards the end of their reign though, volcanic activity began to push them towards extinction...then, of coarse, came the asteroid. However, what this series does NOT take into any account is how human beings are vastly changing the way the world works now. There is a serious underestimation on what part we may play on the future of life on Earth...and whether we have the power to extend life beyond it
iamfreeize 9 months ago
@iamfreeize yes but retiles as a secies servived. they are say that all mammals will die
luna1632 9 months ago
@luna1632 Actually (believe it or not), Dinosaurs were not Reptiles. I'll repeat that, Dinosaurs were NOT reptiles. They shared a common Reptilian ancestor (like Birds and Mammals) but they themselves are classed as Dinosaura, a different class from Reptiles I'm afraid. What they did get wrong in this series was that perhaps a certain branch of Mammals could evolve to be different and survive...or the world could end in 2012! ;)
iamfreeize 9 months ago
Ah-ah. I doubt that mammals will die out so utterly even in a hundred million years from now. They're just too good, too adaptible. TFIW has just been taking liberties with evolutionary possibilities.
Junketh71 10 months ago
lol the spiders get the seeds to farm the poggles to feed the queen to make more spiders to get the seeds TO FARM THE POGGLES!
Sleeper800 11 months ago 20
@Sleeper800 what do they do when the poggles die and dont breed first?
shoshanish 5 months ago
@shoshanish they make them fat first so i assume they had babies becausae they're fat
Sleeper800 5 months ago
poor poggle
metalgta4xcon 1 year ago
how do you have abundent co2 in a tropical climate?
jacobpaprotskiy 1 year ago
I'd want a Poggle for a pet. They're so cute!
Sporefan04 1 year ago
i believe mammals are going to evoulute into a brand new specie
but however that is something out of human imagination
so we can only predict mammales extinction but not what the new type of the animals are
pixpinallen 1 year ago
they're acting on the assumption of a long period of warming. if that happens the mammals' advantage, being warm blooded, will be moot. insects, reptiles and amphibians will be more active all the time, and our advantage will be gone. it's a reasonable point, in my opinion, if the warming continues.
shannon1664 1 year ago
I think that too,but in 100 mil years there will be like 10,000 to 100,000 more mammles
Guy109897 1 year ago
this is what MIGHT happen many many centuries from now not what WILL happen, and i think with the way we kill animals of all sorts today the humans might even see the day that only a handful of mammals are alive.
ranma55566688833 1 year ago
a puggle is a type of dog!
PikminInvader 1 year ago
lol i love the sad music..
OneLazyNinja 1 year ago
Dumbasses! Mammals are warm-blooded and need a higher consumption of calories to survive. Since the scientist have displaced their "fictional" future of the Earth as being more hotter with less food abundance, mammals are losing in the circle of life! Furthermore, mammals can't produce as fast or as much offspring like other lifeforms and their adaptable capabilities are slower as well in comparison to insects, birds, reptile, and pretty much everything organic on this planet; ignor-asses mayne!
VexT916 1 year ago
@VexT916 Thank god.... When I saw 16 people had agreed with that, it shocked me. How can so many people claim to "believe in evolution' when they understand nothing about how it works and the inevitabilities it produces? Like religious who worship science. It's eerie.
OneLazyNinja 1 year ago
@OneLazyNinja Yea man no prob... glad you saw in a different perspective too. Mark Twain once quoted, "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
VexT916 1 year ago
I am sorry but TFIW can be stupid sometimes. The scientist they choose have problems finding the right words. They are blind to see Mammalian evolution completely. And for the Earthquake, all they did was roll rocks down a mountain. Not to mention the CGI is faulty.
Scoinsoffaterocks 1 year ago
Mammals going extinct is unreasonable. The only reason mammals are dying out is due to the Holocene extinction and the super variable environment of the Quaternary. They are so dumb they think bats are rodents!
Scoinsoffaterocks 1 year ago
@Scoinsoffaterocks they're related to rodents in some way though right? A cousin of rodents?
OneLazyNinja 1 year ago
@Scoinsoffaterocks Ok. So I learned something today. While i always knew bats weren't rodents, I assumed they were at least related to rodents. Turns out, at least by accounts of some sources, they are actually more closely related to primates than rodents.
Just thought I'd come back and share that.
OneLazyNinja 1 year ago
@OneLazyNinja
Oh no, that's not right at all! Get this, Mammals are divided into 2/3 (debatable) sub-classes. One of them, Eutheria(placentals) is divided into 4 extant(meaning living) infra-classes, Eurachontglires, Laurasiatheria, Afrotheria, & Xenarthra. Primates and rodents belong to Eurachontglires(primates being an Eurachont, rodents being a Glires) while bats belong to Laurasiatheria, along with hoofed animals, whales, carinivorans(cat,dog), moles, and much more. See Wikipedia.
Scoinsoffaterocks 1 year ago
wasn't there once a bit on the windrunners having a sort of second eyelid that closed over the eye and acted like sunglasses. Did i miss that or was that cut out of this episode?
(i'm completely baked so it is a very real possibility that i missed it...)
OneLazyNinja 1 year ago
The whole "mammals being wiped off the Earth" isn't so ridiculous as first thought. 530 million years ago during the Permian explosion, there was no Reptiles, no Mammals, no Birds. Fish, Arthropods, sponges cephalopods dominated the oceans. Mammals, Reptiles etc appeared on the planet through evolving families of the latter.
So, if nature is able to create these vertebrate families; what is going to stop it from taking them out of the picture?
GreedTheDeadlySin 1 year ago
An asteroid hits the planet and kills like 99.8 % per cent of all life- mammals live on and conquire the planet. Carbon dioxide emissions increase and a few volcanos blow up- they die? WTF?
Diamondhide1994 1 year ago
@Diamondhide1994
The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs killed only 70% of all life. The Permian extinction (which was caused by volcanic eruptions) killed 95% of all life.
N00bcrunch3r 1 year ago
I think it's weird that there will be just one mammal right before that BIG EXTINCTION... little strange... but I really like this documentary ! :D
MrSinjoy 1 year ago
Mammals as a group are very adaptable,I think they're more likely to become new famillies than they are to go extinct.
It seems more like the creator of The future is wild just prefers invertibrates.
Hyak44 1 year ago 11
@Hyak44 He wanted the future to look as weird a possible, so naturally he bumped off first primates, then mammals, then vertebrates altogether.
In reality, vertebrates wouldn't have dominated for the last 500 million years if they weren't a fundamentally better, more-adaptable design; so it's logical to assume they will dominate in the future (but then the "200 million years in the future" segment wouldn't have been so "far out.")
bjggjb 1 year ago
@Hyak44 The mammals are doing bad now and its partly because of us, some species just dont bouce back, sad but true. The time of mammals may very well be over, which is sad ill admit because we ourselves are mammals but every species has times its most and least successful. Reptiles had their time as the dinos, amphibians were successful near the beginning of life on earth, mammals had their age after dinos and even birds ruled south america for a while. Accept we mammals arent the best dude lol
jmaan3 5 months ago
The one professor with the green bow tie sounds like the scientist on The Simpsons...
Veetoria 1 year ago
cool show avery
saraken4life 1 year ago
It's quite impossible for us mammals to disappaear because we can evovle very
fast and mammals are survivors:the ancestors of mammals survived the
Permian-Triassic Extinction event,in which 90% of all life died out while mammals
survived the TriassicJurassic extinction event,Early Jurassic extinctionmid-Aptian extinction event,CretaceousTertiary extinction event,Middle Miocene extinction, Quaternary extinction event and the Holocene extinction
EricFabian123 1 year ago
LOL poggles look like bugsy in bedtime stories
EricFabian123 1 year ago
I`d love to have a Poggle as a pet...
wtfomgstudios 1 year ago
What made mammals so successful after dinos was our higher intelligence and rapid evolution as small rodents with short generation spans. We could adapt faster to changes in the environment, instead of having to always evolve. I think the show does present a good argument that squid / octopus may be a future contender, but completely replacing mammals doesn't sound right. If anyone has had mice / rat problems in their home, they'd know that they really are the future contender.
fringelife 1 year ago 3
@fringelife
Keep in mind though that when Oxygen levels get higher both bugs and reptiles tend to grow much larger then they are today. The lower oxygen levels after the K-T boundary may have had a lot to do with the fact that mammals have done so well : D
Veetoria 1 year ago
@Veetoria That's true, but I can't see why mammals wouldn't evolve as well. Even if we go through periods where we no longer reign supreme, I can't see us just going extinct. Even dinosaurs are still abundant in the form of birds, so to say that dinosaurs went extinct would technically be inaccurate. Mammals have been evolving for 540 million years and yet this movie says we'll be nearly extinct in just 100 million years.
fringelife 1 year ago
@Veetoria Size doesn't count for much versus brainpower. Mammals have far more complex brains than bugs or reptiles (not to mention cephalopods) so they will always have a competitive advantage over such cold-blooded creatures.
bjggjb 1 year ago
@bjggjb
I disagree. Size can and does count for a lot. Brain power or no, if the environment changes drastically, it is usually the smaller animals that tend to survive it because their needs for survival are much smaller and they can hide and such. Brain power does count for a fair bit, but there are many factors involved. Raptors were believed to be rediculously intelligent and yet, went extinct.
Veetoria 1 year ago
I in all of this show «The future is wild» i've only seen the oddest creatures survive, Why? and i mean when dinos were extinct bugs didn't occupied there place because mammals were already eating them so thousonds of ears ago mammals and birds started already of a food chain were bugs were in the bottom. Mammals are the dominant species so it's going to need a catastrofic event to kill all mammals (humans included). It was needed a 9km wide meteor to kill the dinos and they evolved to birds.
FJRCJunior 1 year ago
The point of the program isn't really to give a best guess scenario of what might happen.
It's more about coming up with strange hypotheticals in order to demonstrate key concepts in evolution.
Lymojo 1 year ago
sooo... cats, apes, all types of rodents, any mammel at all except for dis tiny mouse creature will all go extinct. i agree dats bs. how all other species get larger because of oxygen and we get smaller... wtf... and watching all these they tryna say wales, dolphins, sharks, and other sea mammals will die out too? common now sharks are one of da earliest preditors dat havent really changed at all. what really makes you think they are going aywhere anytime in da earths existance.
demo73 1 year ago
@demo73 Mammals' major advantage today is fur and warm blood. We are well suited to both cold and heat and thus thrive in today's largely temperate climate.
The program is saying that in 100 million years the world will be very hot and moist and swampy. Mammals might be able to live in such conditions, but other animals can do a much better job of it, and we'd eventually get pushed aside.
Lymojo 1 year ago
Mammals aren't gonna die out like this. Humans are gonna survive, no doubt about it, and we'll keep our mammal pets with us (cats, dogs, etc.) because we like taking care of other species. So mammals will not die out because of us humans. On the other hand, we probably all took to space and left Earth by now, so mammals still exist, just not on Earth.
bioniclefan4life 1 year ago
@bioniclefan4life Humans will no doubt do well in the future, as our intelligence makes us arguably the most adaptable species on the planet.
However, this program is based on the assumption that humans mysteriously vanished without a trace.
As things are going now, I'd bet the only true biodiversity we'll have in a few thousand years is humans, their chattel (pets, farm animals), and synanthropes like sparrows, rats, and roaches.
Lymojo 1 year ago
Without a doubt, many species will be wiped out by the coming ice age. As for your first statement, taking to space taking all our possessions and mechanisms with us is the same is mysteriously vanishing.
bioniclefan4life 1 year ago
It's funny how these scientists (Which are mammals, themselves) convey the thought of their kind going completely extinct so calmly.
spritefan125 1 year ago
that thing with mammals going extinct is complete bullshit
nickyboy22071989 2 years ago 33
the people who made this are scientists?
paleobc65 1 year ago 3
they're pseudointellectuals arthropods have gone completely downhill in evolution since before the age of dinosaurs whereas mammals are only becoming better
nickyboy22071989 1 year ago 3
@nickyboy22071989 if they didn't just die out then they'd evolve to the point that they are no longer considered mammals
BELEIVEIT1 1 year ago
@BELEIVEIT1 possible, but the mammal is about the most perfect design of all families of animal we have warm blood and we produce our own body and insects birds and reptiles are on the decline the they're implying in this series that fish and cephalapods will evolve to not need water if that was that was the case then they wouldn't be the same family of animals.
nickyboy22071989 1 year ago
@nickyboy22071989 however, mammals started rising to power sometime after the dinosaurs went extinct. sure they have many advantages compared to reptiles and amphibians. but like they said, rodents have the best chances of being the last mammals because in some ways they are better at adapting than us. i think that reptiles, fish and amphibians still have the potential to evolve into something that would drive the mammals to extinction, let alone insects who will probably rule the world again
BELEIVEIT1 1 year ago
@nickyboy22071989 Mammals are not the most perfect animal group ever. I believe that title belongs to insects, which aren't on the decline, and will probably be around long after last recognizable mammal takes its last breath.
Chirostenotes 1 year ago
@nickyboy22071989 Care to explain WHY? (My argument against this is on the previous segment.) If you understand anything about evolution you'll understand that eventually ALL species go extinct (this is what drives CHANGE - the arms race that sexual reproduction triggered) You sound like a religious person. It's not a question of emotional attachment. it's a simple question of how things work.
OneLazyNinja 1 year ago
@nickyboy22071989 I mean of course there is also a possibility that mammals will endure. Don't get me wrong.
OneLazyNinja 1 year ago
think about it if humans became extinct just about everything else would flourish in our absence, mammals wuld evolve to new heights mammals are the closest thing to a perfect design, we produce our own body heat give birth to live young and produce our own food for them.
nickyboy22071989 1 year ago
@nickyboy22071989 Possibly true as our geological finds of fossil have proven already, but will any of them ever surmount to travel the stars? Or even build a simple device as a wheel? Possible, but not questionable.
VexT916 1 year ago
@nickyboy22071989 perfect design? there is no perfect design. different circumstances give rise to different designs. producing your own heat helps great when it is cold, but is a major burden when it gets hot. giving birth to live young and feeding them helps them survive. but when predation is almost a certainty it is better to mass produce offspring who can look after themselves. because then the predators will leave the majority alone because they are just stuffed.
charchadonto 1 year ago
@nickyboy22071989 But by then, bulls will have gone extinct xD
Sporefan04 1 year ago
@Sporefan04 hehehe
nickyboy22071989 1 year ago
@nickyboy22071989 I agree that rodents would survive the longest. Quite honestly, most mammals today are not adaptable enough for a much hotter climate. Birds and reptiles are. The bigger outrage isn't in this happening, it's in the show having pretty much all vertebrates going extinct. I find that unnecessary - nothing like that has ever happened on Earth before.
chylerreckeaolgodhul 10 months ago
@nickyboy22071989 well it is that mammals are the weakest and the less developt groep of animals on the planet and they whud be easy to go extinct because they aren`t as strong as the others types of animals like insects and spiders, but a mass extinction is neaded to make them extinct and even with that i think thare will be at least 1 mammal left befor the go compleatly extinct
vethaak6 10 months ago
@nickyboy22071989
i'm sure dinosaur thought the same thing about themselves
ABlaine9991 6 months ago
@ABlaine9991 After they watched this on youtube lol
nickyboy22071989 6 months ago
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moviemaker199 2 years ago
I'm not buying this ''mammals all going extinct'' thing. Mammals have all died out but there's still birds. lol wut? Anyway, it's most likely that mammals would have given rise to another group before going extinct.
PhantomSephiroth 2 years ago 19
@PhantomSephiroth
I agree, I think some other form of animals may evolve..however, I think that is truly hard to predict or even think about even for a scientist...
Veetoria 1 year ago
@PhantomSephiroth Mammals are perhaps the most adaptable, but they have limited ranges. We tend to do very well only in cold environments. Our hey day was the ice age. Mammals were colossal and powerful. Like they said ALOT of endangered creatures are mammal. Alot of that is humanities' fault. But almost every other form of life except birds LOVES heat. The hotter the better. It's how insects grew to be 10 feet long, and how dinosaurs dominated. Mammals won't handle the heat as well as cold.
vampiremessiah51 1 year ago
@vampiremessiah51 Huh? mammal can do very well in heat and have develope brilliant adaptations to it. We are a perfect exemple, for Homo sapiens has evolved the most efficiant cooling systeme. Heat dosen't seem to be bottering the mammals of Africa and it seems it wasen't any problem for those living during the jurassic and cretacious period, which were even hotter than today. Sure mammals aren't doing good today, but EVERY group is doing bad, even insects.
PhantomSephiroth 1 year ago
@vampiremessiah51 prehistoric insects grew to immense proportions because of the abundance of oxygen in the atmosphere, not because of high temperatures.
Just for the record though, I am not saying this refutes the rest of what you posted.
vhinostroza 1 year ago
@PhantomSephiroth Not necessarily, there are whole groups of animals that have gone extinct without giving rise to other animals. Trilobites, ammonites, and plesiosaurs, and pterosaurs all come to mind. Evolution is not necessarily a straight progression. And iirc mammals actually have fewer species than other classes, especially compared to amphibians, reptiles, birds etc.
Velox415 1 year ago
@Velox415 You do realise that Amphibians, birds and reptiles are in trouble to. Some are even having it harder than mammals, even crocodilians are heading for extinction. The point is, they are saying that '' mammals aren't doing so good'' but fact is NO group is doing good thanks to the human infestation. Mammals are one, if not the most adaptable order and if humans were to go extinct, they would easily recover and diversify again.
PhantomSephiroth 1 year ago
@PhantomSephiroth i know! in the later episodes they say reptiles, birds, and amphibians are gone, too! i can understand amphibians, but the idea that the other two will be gone is total bs! those guys are FAR too adaptable and advanced to die out!
stix365 9 months ago
this episode was were The Future is Wild went completely WRONG (at least in my opinion) mammals are one of the most successful class of animals and will NOT be replaced with squids. Subclasses and superorders have been wiped out, but right now mammals are the most diverse creatures ever. But then again look what happened to the synapsids
LionHeart9619 2 years ago 4
@LionHeart9619
But most compare mamals with others. Reptiles and fishes are very adaptive(with a few exceptions). Amphibians, although seemingly incapable, managed to survive very long.
Aves and mamals on the other hand, are already under serious problems. Most creatures that are going extinct are mamals or aves.
turtlesoviet 2 years ago
@turtlesoviet yes, maybe, but mammals were the biggest group of tetrapod survivors after the KT extinction, and they survived the original oven-hot Earth right after the comet hit, then the freezing cold after the dust and ash blocked the sun for years
LionHeart9619 2 years ago
Agree, only humans are the ones who extint mammals (almost large mammals are extint now)
MrPIROCAS 2 years ago
Thoose idiot silver stupid spiders want to wipe out one of the last mammals thats just plane STUPID IDIOTIC DUMB.
utahraptor4729874 2 years ago
Agreed; I think they are exagerating with these, of that is going to be just one species of mammals all around the globe. I think there will be more species, maybe 3 or 5 more species of mammals, maybe more.
Mrjohn5533 2 years ago 15
I agree' surely the forte of the mammaks is adaptability? Hence why they survived the ice age?
Btw, thanks 4 uploading this/
vodkasvictim 2 years ago
@Mrjohn5533 it could be possible that bats evolved into more advanced creatures like the future predator from primeval
xerke 1 year ago
@Mrjohn5533 It may not be an exageration, they are taking into the equation the damage we have done to the mammals as well. Weve hurt all animal types but many could argue weve hit mammals the hardest. So they may have even thrived after us if we hadnt weakened them first, allowing other less human hurt species to simply outnumber and overpower the mammals before they could bounce back from whatever killed humans as well in this world
jmaan3 1 year ago
@Mrjohn5533 Nope :] it's the last mammal. EVAR
DirtySandalz 1 year ago
@Mrjohn5533 Yes, but if there is an eventual extinction of all mammals, there will be a period were there is only one species left.
themranonemus 1 year ago
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@Mrjohn5533 Yes, but if there is an eventual extinction of all mammals, there will be a period were there is only one species left.
Thx 4 posting this vid!
themranonemus 1 year ago
@Mrjohn5533 Indeed, rodents shouldn't be underestimated for the survivors they are
georgekostaras 11 months ago
@Mrjohn5533 I gotta disagree, as they say mammals are doing badly today and anyone can see why poaching, hunting, and polution by us would essentially harm mammals to the point where even after we're gone the mammals will never 100% bounce back, too many species are gone or near gone.
jmaan3 8 months ago
@Mrjohn5533 If they are to all die out, there will be only one at some point
thegodlessatheist 8 months ago
I think most mammals would be able to adapt successfully to survive. But hey, that's just me... I'm not a scientist, but I doubt that mammals will die out that quickly...
lawrence142002 2 years ago
There is no way that Mammals would be outclassed by Reptiles and Invertebrates
dynamicdragon13 2 years ago 3
well you know this things call dinosaurs ....
akron067 2 years ago
They became birds and now they're lunch. Anyway I seriously doubt that insects would be able to take us down. If increased O2 makes them bigger same goes for us. Increased heat? No problem, big ears. Mammals have succesfully adapted to more habitats than any other animals. We win and we eat whatever loses.
TrueMetis 2 years ago 3