Product: Future Is Wild [VHS]
Rating: 4.0
Extinction of Tetrapoda?
"The Future is Wild" is an interesting take on the future of life on Earth at 5, 100, and 200 MY in the future. The CGI is pretty believable, and they back up their more unusual claims with modern-day examples. The names are a bit silly, but you can't really expect a proper Genus-species name for an imagined life-form!Probably my greatest gripe about this is the 200 MY in the future segment. The creators of this had a bit of a penchant for invetebrates, I think; the entire tetrapod line has gone extinct by this point (which I find difficult to believe given the length it's been around already and the huge degree of diversity found in it), which definitely provides the opportunity for huge adaptive radiation in the other genera -- but as I said, the premise is a bit difficult to swallow (a bit of tetrapod-centrism on my part? Maybe.). Its also implied we (ie, tetrapods) got some stiff competition from invertebrates when oxygen levels rose. However, given our generally more efficient oxygen processing it would seem that insectivorous birds and such would make the proverbial killing in this environment, but oh well.If we accept that as a given, however, I definitely believe that cephalopods would be the next-in-line, so to speak. And in any case, the series is entertaining to watch, and gives a good taste of evolution in action.