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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@AustralianBird
Ай бұрын
That line goes pretty hard
@anthonyhiggins7409
Ай бұрын
I cannot “like” this comment enough. 🙂
@infinitemonkey917
Ай бұрын
@@anthonyhiggins7409I can't gag enough on the cheeze.
@anthonyhiggins7409
Ай бұрын
@@infinitemonkey917 what can I say? Some people just like cheese.. 🤷♂️😆
@jamesdriscoll_tmp1515
Ай бұрын
I love this comment, and despair.
Anyone remember The Future is Wild?
@Reitiranossaurobanguela
Ай бұрын
thanks for reminding me of It!
@FeeshUnofficial
Ай бұрын
If you liked The Future Is Wild you should check out C.M. Koseman's All Tomorrows and All Yesterdays
@bryaneberly3588
Ай бұрын
adored that program. have you read "After Man" by Dougal Dixon?
@saviourojukwu893
Ай бұрын
Yep
@blogsytjr3390
Ай бұрын
Me!
People always say that living forever would suck, but it’s my curiosity about these sorts of things that make me disagree.
@kats9755
Ай бұрын
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
Ай бұрын
Those people lack imagination.
@horuswasright
Ай бұрын
Living forever as we are today with our limited cognitive abilities would drive us insane pretty soon.
@MaekarManastorm
Ай бұрын
You would grow tired , tired of the struggle, tired of watching everything you know and love turn to dust
@alittlewarlord
Ай бұрын
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.
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.
This episode brought back memories of The Future is Wild! 😂
@roys.1889
Ай бұрын
Is that the one with the Super-sized Man-o-Wars called the Reef Glider, the Sapient Squid monkeys, and the Torratons?
@wildnye
Ай бұрын
@@roys.1889that's the one!
@stuartaaron613
Ай бұрын
Yes. @@roys.1889
@chakuseki
Ай бұрын
Omg me too! One word: FLISH
@takenname8053
Ай бұрын
This is even further beyond! The Future is Wild stopped at 200 Million Years
May PBS Eons last 100 million years! ❤
@zimriel
Ай бұрын
... under different management
@scorpiovenator_4736
Ай бұрын
Imagine if they actually existed for 1 million years
@treystephens6166
Ай бұрын
@@scorpiovenator_4736GODZILLA will Out Live STAR WARS.
@drhashim1985
Ай бұрын
Maximum 30 years
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
Ай бұрын
Very cool!
I learned from Star Trek: Voyager that mankind will evolve into salamanders.
@Kashype101
23 күн бұрын
Lol weird episode that was
"Amasia" looks like a pun in portuguese - as if the continent are "amasiados" (meaning they became lovers)
@MossyMozart
Ай бұрын
Also, Amaze-ia!
@LimeyLassen
Ай бұрын
It's a Portuguese plot! They're planning on world domination!
@jamesdriscoll_tmp1515
Ай бұрын
Bom dia
@miguelramos3820
Ай бұрын
Do que raio estão a falar? Nunca ouvi tal coisa
@mffmoniz2948
Ай бұрын
Eu cresci com "amantigado". Parece que foi barrado com manteiga.
Failed rift valley in the US? Can you do an episode on that and other similar terrain features in the future?
@AndrewTBP
Ай бұрын
They already did that.
@ortherner
Ай бұрын
@@AndrewTBPwhat vid
This episode reminded me of The Future is Wild. What a trip down memory lane ❤
Spoiler alert smh
Eons has come full circle, looking at the past to looking at the present now to looking at the future
@MossyMozart
Ай бұрын
@normanmendez636 - I hope this doesn't mean they are closing up shop!
Kinda wish this was a much longer video there’s a lot of speculation that could be interesting to see.
6:20 "We're getting the band back together" Can't wait for the Pangea Reunion Album to drop!
@brianmiller1077
10 күн бұрын
The bands Asia, Europe and America form a super (continent) group
The fact that we missed cat-sized horses makes me sad.
@FreedomAnderson
Ай бұрын
Have you heard of Thumbelina the Horse? She was a mini Horse with dwarfism.
I've been waiting for a video like this for so long! I love hypothesizing about the distant future.... Thank you!!! 💜💙💚
@mariovwcardoso5970
Ай бұрын
check on Science and Futurism with Isaac Arthur. You might like it.
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
Ай бұрын
Thank you for explaining that!
@apexnext
Ай бұрын
Yeah I wanted to know what _multituberculates_ were more than the answer. 😂
@amandaewoldt8205
Ай бұрын
The come up repeatedly on the common descent podcast
@MossyMozart
Ай бұрын
@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
Ай бұрын
"Allotherian" meaning that they weren't placental but they were closely related to placentals.
"We're getting the band back together." "We're on a mission from Gwondana."
this was a fascinating episode. great work, eons team!
If even Michelle can't easily say multituberculates, there's no hope for me
@XiaolinDraconis
Ай бұрын
Multi(ee) Tuber Cue Late's
Love this channel! ❤
The future is wild moment
@Spongebrain97
Ай бұрын
When the octopus went to land and evolved into separate species, one of which began swinging from trees 😂
@chasingcheetahs5017
Ай бұрын
@@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
23 күн бұрын
It's just uncertain
Thank y'all for these amazingly informative and entertaining videos.
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.
What great idea for a video. Loved it. Thank you.
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❤
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
Ай бұрын
😂
So cool! Thank you for making this video!
Loved this video, thank you
THANK YOU for including your note acknowledging indigenous peoples and their land. It's so critical.
@Martha.fokker
23 күн бұрын
Yep that's the important thing.
That multituberculate will come back to haunt us in our dreams. Multiyoutuberculate... Meh multi KZread chocolate it is.
yay another pbs eons video i've been shaken and sweating not getting my fix,
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
Ай бұрын
Mediterranean salt desert, here we come!
@patricklee5239
Ай бұрын
@@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
Ай бұрын
@@patricklee5239 I believe "The Future is Wild" agrees with us both.
Another great EONS video! 🥰
Thank you ❤
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!
This is a fantastic episode and really interesting.
yay this was cool would love to see more on this topic
Awesome content!!
So I guess now we'll need an episode about multituberculates (by Michelle obviously)
Thank you
I love this channel!
This was a cool video. Thanks!
Love it! Love this show! Love all you guys talking science, it lit my day!
We must have more Eons more often!
This is what i want to see yessss
Getting rid of Florida? There must be a downside too?
An episode on multituberculates now seems mandatory -- PBS Eons can't just drop something like that and leave us hanging!
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
Amazing!
The SpecEvo episode! Hurray!
Makes me wish the Future is Wild got more seasons
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
Ай бұрын
We'll have evolved into a different species who knows how many times over by that point.
@nicholashylton6857
Ай бұрын
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
Ай бұрын
We’ll be dead
@darth856
Ай бұрын
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
Ай бұрын
@@darth856We will have (provided that we don't nuke ourselves) evolved into machine intelligence long long before that!
As fascinating as stuff like this is, I kind of miss when we had more Eons episodes about specific extinct animals.
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
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.
It looks like a bunny! 🐰😀I think we should call it Bunnyland.
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!
Finally, something I have been asking (myself) for years
Gran video, debería haber una segunda parte
Future is Wild...
All hail the rise of the Squibbons.
Loved seeing my favourite local climbing spots featured in Eons! Palisade Head and Shovel Point in Tettegouche State Park along Lake Superior!
I'm sad that I'm not going to be around to see all this come to pass.
@bryaneberly3588
Ай бұрын
we'll have a viable type of vampirism soon, i hope.
@AdDewaard-hu3xk
Ай бұрын
I'm happy not to.
@l.a.gothro3999
Ай бұрын
@@bryaneberly3588 eh, I couldn't hang with that, it'd drive me bats.
Evospec gang unite! Really nice video btw
We need the planet to survive but the planet doesn't need us to survive
@lepidoptera9337
Ай бұрын
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.
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. 😊 🦇
i adore the absolute dedication with which the end notes about invasive research carried out by colonial nations is put out. kudos guys.
@theonebman7581
Ай бұрын
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
Ай бұрын
Yes. Humans always replace other humans.
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
Ай бұрын
prEyed on. And, no offense, it was a funny typo. I visualized a spider church, too.
@GiantEagle610
Ай бұрын
@@istvansipos9940 haha, just noticed it. Thanks for pointing it out. Will leave it unedited and perhaps make others laugh
That was Amasiaing
I'm still getting ready for the ice age they warned us about in the 1980s.
Great explanation. Watching from INDIA
Is anybody else curious about whatever happened to Steve?
When you mentioned that North American rift it immediately reminded me of that Harry Turtledove series of novels about Atlantis.
And now In The Year 2525 will be playing in my brain on repeat.
@thhseeking
Ай бұрын
You're evil :P
The amount of time is just mind boggling.
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.
8:39 Fossil evidence for hotsprings and other subterranean water sources? That would be interesting! 🤔 (I've been to hotsprings in the desert)
I'll be around
I would not mind it if Eons started a whole series speculating future geology and biology in more specific detail.
Is anyone else feeling absolutely crushed after seeing the footage of that poor polar bear floating around 😢
@StoffelDilligas
Ай бұрын
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
Ай бұрын
@@StoffelDilligasLiking comments also means that you agree with the point made in the comment
@StoffelDilligas
Ай бұрын
@@brambleheart fully aware of that. Thanks for the reminder
@caseyleichter2309
Ай бұрын
What's happening to our cold-dependent species guts me all the time. Polar bears, penguins, cetaceans...I hate it.
@jaimiecarpediemer
Ай бұрын
Thank you all for letting me know I’m not alone. 💚 sending love to all
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.
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?
The future is wild
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.
Are there any plans on reviving the PBS podcast? Loved the format to put on in the car. But the first season have been played a few times by now
I would love to see an episode about Lake Bonneville that used to cover most of Utah
Was the trivia question from THE Matt Parker?? Standup Maths is another favorite channel.
@mattparker7932
Ай бұрын
No. We share a name. But this was from me, not him.
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
watching this well writing a book helps to have some paleo stuff lol
We’ve been here a few thousand years and only technologically developing over a few hundred years. I think this is quite speculative.
And here was I, assuming multituberculates were some kind of potato. 🥔
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.
The amount of people making The Future is Wild references warms my heart.
Totally unrelated to the topic at hand, but I love your outfit in this video! The earrings are so pretty!
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.
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
Ай бұрын
You could actually count Afroeurasia and the Americas right now as supercontinents when you think of it
@AndrewTBP
Ай бұрын
Nonsense.
5:47 Mid-Continent Rift of North America. Did not know this was a thing. Thank you. Must look this up now.
if there were no more vertebrates then, what's the next likeliest clade that could become the dominant megafauna?
@ExtremeMadnessX
Ай бұрын
🦀 🦀 🦀 🦀 🦀 🦀 🦀 🦀
@Renisanxious
Ай бұрын
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
Ай бұрын
@@ExtremeMadnessX you can find them down at the combination arthropod cephalapod store.
@EksaStelmere
Ай бұрын
The time of Cnidarian bone slimes is nigh, child. They descend from the Khorallian neogels which should arise around AD 198M~202M ±4M.
@edmondantes4338
Ай бұрын
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.