The Future is Wild: A Biology Fan Fiction | Billiam
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- "The Future is Wild" is a documentary-style miniseries speculating on how animals could continue to evolve! Speculative zoology! It's neat! It was based on the book, "After Man," by Dougal Dixon! it's all weird!
It wasn't produced by the Discovery Channel! That was a mistake!
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hey love your stuff was wondering if you could do a review on shinzo?
But WHAT about the hopping snail
I don’t even need a reminder to share these videos, I pretty much always send it to my brother so we can stumble down memory lane together
Ok I'll will this is a secret .(･-･)
No
Watching renowned biologists describe their DeviantArt original species with the same enthusiasm as actual DeviantArt kids is very wholesome
Stephen Hawking must be one hell of a deviantart kid.
You have good taste in profile pics.
@@castlewhite1577
Stephen Hawking was a physicist.
speczoo is just closed species jfc thanks for making me realize that
Spec Zoo community is honestly hilarious because anything that DEVIATES a single bit from reality will make them get out their biology PHD and says why that is unrealistic even though things in the past and things now have the traits of the fictional creature.
Watching this as a child, the mere idea that the last surviving mammals would be enslaved by giant spiders gave me a sense of existential dread that I had never felt before.
It was,like it gave a feeling that the powerful lineage of mammals would go out not with a bang but with a whimper
That's the part that feels the most unrealistic to me
Dinosaurus Rex tbh like there had to be a reason why only one was left,there could’ve been at least a few derived forms somewhere in the world
That's why pikmin future is better
@@dinosaurusrex1482 ya birds ARE THE DINOSAURS STILL ALIVE TODAY and mammals are the only synapsids alive today and our distant relatives were dimetrodon and gorgonopsids but our lineages are still around and dominant.
My favourite thing about Dougal Dixon is his constant perspective that rodents, mustilids and bats will always be the most successful mammals lol. . . Like he just refuses to let that go
I have a theory that the animals we hate or find annoying are the ones that'll be the most sucessful, frigging mosquitos have been around since the dawn of time along with alligators
@@walrusArmageddon well just think of the word 'vermin'. What are vermin other than animals we find difficult to control, and if WE, the most badarse species at killing shit that has ever existed on this planet, find it difficult to control something? That kind of be default makes those animals unbelievably adaptive and tenacious.
Honestly, beyond us humans, he may be right.
To be fair, small mammalians have survived extinction after extinction. The logic kinda checks out
Mammals “began” with rodents, and thus shall “end” with rodents.
Ya know, the thing that always puzzled me about The Future is Wild was the fact they got such a variety of scientists to examine the possible Speculative Zoological advancement of the planet...
And the best name they could come up with for a future flying fish/bird thing was "Flish".
Look, the brain cell budget was all allocated to the biology R&D.
"My childhood was more than just Digimon!"
Proceeds to talk about fictional monsters that are made entirely digitally.
They are animals you fool.
@@jurassician3725 the ones in the books don't exist. I think that was the point. 😂
@@Andresfin Of course they're animals, they just ain't here yet. Imagine it, you, me, we're on tiny xenomorph horse, megasquid waging war on the vent heads in the distance.
@@jurassician3725 what do you think the difference is?
@@JamesonMcLeod Art style
billiam, as a goof: they got WILLIAM GILLY
me, a zoologist: 👀 oh shit
me, not a zoologist, just someone who was weirdly obsessed with squid for a while: Oh wow 👀
Is his nickname squidbillie?
Is.... Is he good? lol.
No really, is Dr. Gilly a big deal?
@@Red-yt2dk yeah, looks like he studied how sea creature neurology works, like in starfish
Hearing “remember those squids for later” awoke so many memories of what this show was about lol
Scientists talking about their hypothetical future species is like a writer talking about their OCs and I think it's absolutely adorable
"to get a copy it is gonna set you back about 800 dollars"
me, who has a copy of this book laying on my bookshelf: 👁👄👁
Welp, guess you'll have a backup plan if you go broke
It's weird, because you can get a pdf of it pretty easily.
laughs in PDF rip
People, the ORIGINAL PRINTED BOOK has the value, not the content of said book 🤦♂️
@@MauZangetsu well that's dumb
That CGI intro of going through a museum just slammed me back to middle school
The eyewitness tapes were a huge part of my childhood too probably why the ocean used to creep me out a little as a kid lol
When I started reflexively singing along I felt possessed
Sent me back to primary school XD
For real.
They used to put it on towards the end of the year again when we were im high school and the class went NUTS
Hearing you mention Man After Man is hilarious to me because of how hard All Tomorrows is going off
I'd LOVE to hear your take on All Tomorrows if you've taken a peek at that work of speculative evolotionary fiction
I loved Alt Shift Xs video on All Tomorows, got my mind intrigued. Thought the same thing when I saw Man after Man too.
Tbh, AT isn't as much biological as it is anthropological- it's more a polemic about how 'humanity' can be found in all walks of life, represented in literal alien forms of humans.
i love billy hyping up the scientists from the show, it always makes me smile. i have no clue who they are or what half of their fields are but im so here for them. you go dr. gily, you funky squid man, i love you and your giant turtle dr linley
My local Library has Man After Man. All knowledge, no matter how cursed, must be written.
OMG! Lucky you. No $800 shelling out for you.
Haha, cursed.
Scan it. Scan. This. This cursed tome must be brought upon the world and people
Do not share this cursed knowledge, the universe will never be ready for that
There's a book called all tomorrows by C.M. Kösemen which is the most cursed work of speculative biology. Just google the books name if you're prepared
From what I've heard Man After Man wasn't really Dixon's idea. His original concept for the third book was less cursed, but way more depressing. Basically humans were to return from their space colonies to the world from the original After Man. The book would then describe how they wrecked the ecosystem again and all those fantastical creatures from the first book are now dead or on the verge of extinction.
On the subject of what we've got instead, It should be noted that while the first two books are speculative evolution the third one is pure (and not particularly hard) science fiction. It's still very enjoyable, just don't expect a scientific explanation of described events.
The HTML version of Man After Man used to be hosted on Sivatherium website (a webpage about speculative biology) but was since removed. An older version of Sivatherium can still be viewed through WayBack Machine tho.
2004: "Oh, wow, the future is wild!"
200,000,2004: "How did they not know that Land Squids would have feathers?"
I KNOW, RIGHT?!
200,002,004*
I knew there was something weird lol
Lolll
The Future is Wild is literally inspiring, especially when I was a kid, it may be uncanny in ways but it literally is amazing and imaginative. Heck I am developping an idea of a future world with butterflies that hunt, dragon looking creatures that evolved from sharks, birds that have achieved human intelligence and start a civilization and giant plesiosaur looking bird whales.
Yooo that sounds really cool, I’d love to see some of the creatures of your world.
But why? Why not just write fantasy? This is not scientific!
@@KFrost-fx7dt you're not scientific
@@KFrost-fx7dt Probably a Combo of Both.
@K. Frost did the commenter ever say they were gonna be scientifically accurate? They just said there idea
As a child, I always liked to imagine that these guys got together, slammed down a few beers and shots, started making up this shit in a drunken haze, and came up with the science afterwards. I love it.
This looks like someone played Spore and liked it so much they made a show about their creations.
now im inspired to make these in spore omg, ,, , ,
Bruh Animal planet even had a special feature for Spore while marathoning this show; That's actually how I first got into that game.
@@sc7700 w a i t w o t
I like your profile pic.
@@sc7700 HOLY HELL
Can we just appreciate the fact that the Poggle is called a Poggle
Poggle's in chat
it curses my mind that poggle is literally a hampter
@@nicolasrocha4824 it’s a very efficient body plan, and since it lives in caves it has large eyes to see in low light conditions
@@PunchCounterpunch_Lizzy in other words, hampter
Future pog
Subtle background music joke using Professor Sycamore’s theme when he’s the Mega Evolution Pokémon professor
Thank you, omg. I was going crazy trying to figure out from which Pokemon game was that music- like, I've heard it before, but where???
It is also heart warming how you talk about how fun this series is and how you watched it over and over as a kid.😊 Fellow scifi fan here. 👋
Speculative Biology is genuinely kind of a fun rabbit hole to fall down
Just compile all the gen 1 pokedex entries and you get a similar effect
Pokemon and Monster Hunter come to mind
especially when you get to projects like Serina where even the most ridiculous idea is built up in such a detailed lore that it actually seems believeable, like evolving guppies into sapient tripedal deer-rabbits with rotating jaws and prehensile antlers that are actually ears
All tomorrow's and the after trilogy are also rad
@@hhoop3876 all tomorrows is so good
I love that the future is wild is a periodically update thing. Like, years from now people are gonna find this shit on the internet and be like "Wow, these ancient idiots thought we'd have squids ruling the world" and then the roach people will laugh.
We all know penguins are gonna rule the earth
Realisticly when humans go extinct just about every other living thing will too. Probably not including most insects maybe a very small portion of sea life and microorganisms
@@kaical8273 That seems no different then other mass extinctions that happened over hundreds of millions of years. One mass extinction long even before the dinosaurs existed yet had killed off 90% of all life on earth and yet after that in a long period of time life eventually recovered, diversified, and prospered again.
@@brandonlyon730 well the way humans are if we do go extinct it was most likely cause of a catisclismic event or we did it to our selves. If we did it to ourselves that would probaly mean we've our selves killed a unpresidented amount of species and have polluted to the point that the wavering tempatures just kill of trillions of migratory animals. Cause frankly besides things like bacteria and insects as a species we're extremely hardy. Also you have to realise st this point earth is pretty old and it has been on a decline resource wise slowly but surely. And the fact humans have had almost the most influence on all loving things on this planet in the world. There's alot if factors that makes humans going extinct and huge dinosaurs that needed extremely high food and energy cost and lived in a time where they were essentially roided cause of all the extra heat and oxygen. Frankly I'm saying something that took out the dinosaurs wouldn't be as effective against humans or most modern animals.
@@kaical8273 how would that be any different than a meteor flash evaporating the ocean and killing off the dinosaurs
As a career researcher, it is my life goal to receive the sort of enthusiastic introduction that you gave to Doctors Aviles, Tiffney, and GIlly.
You embodied a scientist perfectly- lots of alcohol and generally asking “what the HELL is going on!!???” With each new discovery!!
My first thought "was this the thing with the land squids that can use tools?"
These people predicted Splatoon.
Dang I just made a comment about this
Biblaridion fan?
"The Future is Wild" is biology DnD. Change my mind.
i wont
its perfect
Some of the creatures would make pretty good encounters though.
I, for one, am amenable to including any or all of these horrid monstrosities in my DnD campaign. I can do it, and no one can stop me!
@@Bluecho4 do a Man after Man campaign as well.
This was awesome.
These scientists really love their science OCs.
I love how you spoke about the scientists sarcastically, but in their fields they are superstars
nobody:
Prof. William F. Gilly: "so this is my Original Character his name is Megasquid and hes like an elephant but hes a squid and he can eat anything and make Noise with his Sack and hes the strongest terrestrial squid who ever existed and also he could beat Goku"
I wonder what would happen if someone actually approached him and asked him who would win in a fight
I could not stop laughing during the entire mega squid segment
the megasquid arc hits harder in the manga
Distinguished professor: this is my fursona, doughnut steal.
Actually all of the creatures in future is wild were apearently designed by Dixon himself
Can we just add a new catagory in fanfiction.net called scientific fanfics
"if you don't recycle, we'll end up with walrus-sized penguins" is not the way to motivate anyone to recycle
So damn right :P
Let the thicc penguins rule the earth.
Let’s pollute more so we get the thicc boiz faster
It’s to bad most things in Recycling is not really environmentally or economically efficient. Metals and organic compost are really the only things valuable to recycle, recycling paper and plastic is not at all.
Those are walrus sized ganets
As an aspiring scientists fangirls over scientific journals and their authors I found his presentation of the scientific paper titles absolutely hilarious. I m sending the clip to my professors😂😂
One of my absolute favorite "Walking With Dinosaurs" serie was the Sea Monsters Trilogy.
I can honestly attribute just that series to my fascination of sea monsters now, fiction or real ones.
This is literally just those professors elaborate fanfiction about the future
@@LittleMissInvisible The Kheifah and the Striger actually had an enemies to lovers relationship. There was smut in chapter 6. I, personally, did not ship it.
All Speculative Evolution is just fanfiction about real life.
MMM I think the toreton and the mega squid had a bit of a dramatic romance arc
I think it kind of dived into more possibility instead of the details of why it couldn't happen. Which is kind of what science is until a certain point.
That’s literally what speculative biology is
Hearing a studious old man say “...Flish...” sent me into a laughing fit
Ok, you have a chance to put your future-world animal oc into the show, and you choose _Flish?_
Time travel.
Let's not forget the subspecies
*F O R E S T F L I S H*
The part where they ask if they can make an after man documentary and billiam personifies them by simply saying “no” was what got to me
@@makeshift307 man after man is absurdly cursed. I love it.
My mom picked it up, and refers to flocks of small, fast-flying birds as "flish" since.
I watched two episodes of this back in 2004, I think. The only thing I remembered clearly from it was the giant terrestrial squid.
I was like 5 years old at the time, meaning that one of the earliest memories I can recall clearly is of a giant terrestrial squid on TV, thinking that was 100% how the animals of the future would look like.
Its wild that this vid is 3 years old, i honestly remember it like it was yesterday. Big thanks for making this video as it was an introduction to speculative Zoology!
"That snail hops" has such good comedic timing
So you’re telling me Splatoon is scientifically accurate
No because the splatoon characters look like they're literally humans with some cephalopod traits.
@@oualidbro.c6196 Many cephalopods have the ability to alter the texture of their skin and the shape of their bodies. Splatoon characters actually change shape between large squids and a humanoid form which is achieved by altering the length, thickness, and color of their bodies. It's a bit cartoonishly exaggerated but based on real biology.
Also, it was a joke, calm down.
@@OtakuUnitedStudio I am calm, I wasn't really mad or anything the joke just flew over my head.
@@oualidbro.c6196 ...i'm sorry i cant resist... r/whoosh
@@allianceofkings362 What, this is youtube stop linking subreddits.
*The idea that in the distant future cephalopods would be the dominant species was both hilarious and terrifying.*
...so Splatoon is actually the 400 million years in the future part we never got? :v
I LOVED this series as a kid tbh. It wasn't trying to be tricky or deceptive, it wasn't trying to be anything crazy, it was just scientists and creatives exploring the future together
I still love it and I'm 32.
@@adrammelechthewroth6511 i still love it and I'm almost 39.
@@jaysonklein6018 i still love it and im on my deathbed
@@jart1984I still love it even though humanity went extinct centuries ago
I’m a few weeks old writing this from the womb and I also love it
Weird underground rat thing: dies
Spiders: POGGLES
Spiders then get cancelled on twitter for inciting violence
Hi penguin?
SHUSH😭😭😭
*POGGLE POGGERS*
@@pokemonfanmario7694 I feel like PoggleChamp could be used to honor the late Pog Champ
As a biotech grad and also just bio nerd, the science break made me realize people don’t know these things lmao - also just was going to say that convergent evolution can also be figured out through genetics. Fun example of convergent evolution of mine are hummingbirds and hummingbird hawk moths, moths that drink flower nectar with a butterfly like probuscis and look really similar to hummingbirds. Anywho, great video!!
God that Eyewitness theme makes me so nostalgic. When I was little, my mom took me to the local library every week, and I always got one of the Eyewitness documentaries on DVD to watch at home. I watched all of them multiple times, and that theme gives me chills. I absolutely love it!
Billiam has some serious "angry drunk uncle who cant let go of 2004" vibes in this one
lol
He looks sick I'm worried ☹️
He could have went pro if the coach put him in the fourth quarter
Oh you mean every millennial including me? :/
Lots of White Claw and Truly. Lol
We're approaching 30, we are that uncle
After watching ‘the future is wild’ I could never see splatoon in the same light again.
It's the prequel
I never thought I'd find so much enjoyment in watching a TH-camr with sparkling seltzer in his hand attempting to explain evolution. And as the nerd who became friends with my paleontologist professor years after graduating, I can confirm that yes, it is just a fancy way of saying "I like dinosaurs."
I'm convinced him & I had the same childhood. Thank you for reminding me of so many things I've forgotten!
"I realized that not everyone grew up watching nature documentaries and now just rewatch PBS Eons every night with Hank Green"
THAT STATEMENT WAS WAY TOO CLOSE TO HOME
That's me
Hank green is like the new Bill Nye and I love him
[That's not to say that I'm denying all the great work Nye is doing right now, it just doesn't hit the same because of his disappointment with humanity]
when did he say it?
When I was 12 I watched a show on Discovery called something akin to "The Last Dragons" and it was an hour and a half of "so if Dragons were real, they'd need to do this to survive" like breath only Hydrogen and eat Platinum in order to breath fire.
They didn't state "hey, this isn't real" so my 11 year old brain thought that Dragons were legit.
Oh man, I remember that! I haven't thought about that in years!
It’s called Dragons: A Fantasy Made Real! It’s originally from Animal Planet.
incredible documentary
The exact same thing happened to me, but the only dragon I can vaguely remember is this green-is one that lived in a swamp.
I remember something like that too. I legit thought dragons were real and that humans killed them off cause that’s what we do.
The best part of the video is the genuine excitement and awe when he's talking about the very strong science staff the show had.
I LOVE speculative biology and LOVE the "after man" & "all tomorrows" franchises, and honestly I'm a fan of the TFIW series too! But the cephaloparkour? Oh boy. Oh... oh boy.
The Future is Wild was so wild.
I remember, it even managed to spin off an animated kids show.
I miss old Discovery Channel
I thought it was the show he was reviewing
Gunmetal Gator so did I
is that the one where a girl travels in time to find a place for her people to live cause in her time its freezing over or something?
@@rawrdino7046 you are correct
@@GunmetalGator same i was especially confused bc i never watched the cartoon lol
"Nobody's eating this big turtle!"
And that's how whales got so big. Their natural predators died out.
I still have the DVDs of this, I love crazy evolution sh*t like this. And also dinos
Not actually, the Lyviathan was almost as long as a Megalodon and it was bigger in mass, and it was at the time, the biggest whale alive
Same thing,dude:)
I know a biologist and we have an entire future bio au where octopi basically have reached the stone age
I have the book
I literally cant handle that opening Everytime that eyewitness theme hits I just poof back to being like 9
I just discovered Billiam yesterday and I've been binge watching hard. We have so many of the same interests and his take is hilarious. He also shows that he's smart and has critical thinking. I love going down insane rabbit holes.
Reject Humanity, Abandon Monke, BECOME SKUIDD
Become inkling
@@alicemation woomy
No,monke forever
Cthulhu won
The squids BECAME the kids.
about the After Man anime: apparently there's no anime, that "intro" was just a short music video aired in a TV block featuring several animated shorts. The singer is Nami's voice actress from One Piece!
No matter how great Oda’s writing might or become, she will never reach those heights in her career again.
@@frankwest5388 Just wait until we find out the final villain has the Squid Squid fruit Model: Megasquid
I loved this show so much as a child! I also came second in a Future is Wild design competition which is such a blessed childhood memory😂😁 You should definitely watch Prehistoric Park next, that is one of my favourite childhood shows ever and has similar vibes to this
The bat evolution is what got me as well when I read the book
I always felt bad watching this when they say "the last mammal" and I got legit really sad about it forgetting its not real...
Pfft, mammals going extinct, like that'll ever happen
@@dinosaurusrex1482 dinosaurs still alive as birds so mammals aint leavin
why would you get sad, it is individuals that havmora import
Should have been more like the last rodent.
Or something like that
Or the last thing we would classify as a mammal but most have evolved into something radically different like instead of having fur they have pterosaur pycnofibers something along those lines.
Also its called POG GLES
how could you be sad about a creature called POG gles.
Me: I wonder what animal is gonna evolve to be the next sentience species, dogs? dolphins?
Scientists: G I A N T E A R T H S Q U I D
Splatoon agrees.
FLISH
Squid people, or "squeople".
*bass boosting giant earth squid
The terrestrial MEGA SQUID
I remember this so vividly. Here I Germany, this was a big thing in the media. After all, people were still blown away by Walking With Dinosaurs and Walking With Beasts. Yet, what always boggled me is that I never got to see the jumping snails episode. Admittedly, I never bought the VHS tapes, nor the DVDs. I watched it on TV whenever it came. So, maybe I just missed it. But, as far as I know, they never aired the entire show here. Still, this was one of the greatest things to air on TV. It taught me a very valuable lesson. No matter how many species we let go extinct, for as long as we don't totally fuck up, and scorch the entire planet, life will find a way. When there's a gap, something will fill it.
The eyewitness theme bit had me rolling and hit me straight in the nostalgia
I can't stop laughing at the long-snooted lion presentation.
You’re laughing now but won’t be when a lion can bite you from 2 feet away
@@mr.poohmakes2041 Long Ranged Lion..so..the lion becomes Venus Flytrap?
I want "Man After Man" to be in print again, I would love to share the cursed origin of the "Season's Greason's" Image.
Underrated comment
Also, "The Tic" lol
It probably never will be. Dixon hated it, and referred to it as a 'disaster.'
Man After Man by Dougal Dixon, All Tomorrow's by Nemo Ramjet and Wayne Barlowe's Expedition are my favourite book by far.
And like dude I never read books, but I was hooked on these 3. I can't get enough of speculative evolution! 💎
yeah but I want a movie just like this it would be so scary and funny at the same time XD
I remember watching the future as well, my parents let me stay up past my bedtime to do so, the first time I remember doing it, at least for one episode, we recorded the rest
I also absolutely love to rewatch the Eons videos with Hank Green. I fall asleep to them quite often
“The POGgle”. How this isn’t a meme yet, is beyond me.
Please make this, someone please-
Poggers
Poggles in chat
"Flish" always stuck with me
Walking With Dinosaurs made me cry during the tragic ending as a kid- No, I'm not talking about the mass extinction- What really got to me is the part where it talked about a momma dinosaur dying, and its defenseless young hanging around the corpse like, "Uhh... what do we do?" Until they starved to death too :(
WWD had so many sad moments i.e Big AI's death, Liopleurdon beaching itself and suffering a slow painful death, the T Rex Babies being killed off by the asteroid after their mother died only moments prior, Ornithocheirus dying without ever getting another mate (the narration for that specific scene makes it even more depressing) 😔
Wwd had some heartbreaking scenes. But the ending of walking with beasts where you see all the animals in the series in a museum zooming out to see the earth.
holy shit i remember seeing this when i was a kid and i always thought it was a fever dream and wanted to know the source years later, thank u for this vid pal
What would've been more impressive is if they had more than like 12 animations being looped for an hour.
This mockumentary foreshadowed the Avatar creature craze of 2010.
The avatar creatures were designed by a great artist named Wayne Barlow who wrote The Expedition. That book inspired a special on animal plant called Alien planet about a simulated mission to a fictional planet called Darwin IV
@@PunchCounterpunch_Lizzy WOAH WOAH WOAH
The same guy who created Sea Striders, Eosapiens and Gyrosprinters made the creatures of Pandora?
WHY ARE THEY SO UNIMAGINATIVE THEN?! They are usually just earthish creatures, the ones on Darwin IV were truly alien
@@aitipsea3909 minus the na’vi the aliens of avatar are actually pretty scientifically accurate to what alien life could look like.
@@aitipsea3909 Well the na'vi are human-like because that makes them easier to emphasize with to the average person. I don't think the average movie go-er would get to attached too the mc if he looked like a gyrosprinter.
Wait...are you telling me that The Future is Wild is actually the prequel OVA to Splatoon?
Holy Fuck. You are right! Those fucking squids evolved.
RARE splatoon CGI OVA (FOUND)
Learning & Junk is my favourite Billiam bit
The future is wild, was, as the name implies, wild! I’d love to see more videos like this from you, keep up the good work
I remember renting this to my local library and thinking "I too want to make custom species"
19:47 The thing about cephalopods being the next humans is basically the origin of Splatoon.
This is actually the deep Splatoon lore.
And what makes it even crazier was that according to the development of Splatoon the ideas of how Splatoon came to V were all out of coincidence it was all picked out of like a random raffle basket so the fact that these two separate franchises in entities were based off of the same ideas in origins it’s just crazy to me…
I was looking for someone else who thought this
@@komodoguy152 divergent evolution
@@djprincegrandmasteryrjdalo2905 the squid choice was intentional that was not raffled
I love thinking up all kinds of monsters and creatures. Sometimes I come up with semi-plausible ways to explain them. other times I just go 'you know what? They eat metal and do so by eating lava because magic! Also they're basically ducks that treat volcanos like ponds.'
The penguin seals awoke something deep within me I had completely forgotten. I used to draw those all the time after I saw this.
If you don't put anything for scale isn't that just... drawing fat penguins?
Bruh, you had a physical copy?!? I saw rerun of it when I was 11 and spent the next eight years convinced I had imagined the whole thing.
I also had a physical copy growing up! My brother really liked walking with dinosaurs and some of the other dinosaur shows so we ended up with a lot of stuff like this.
You are not crazy Ian and this is the proof it existed.
BRO I KNOW NOBODY KNOWS WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT
ngl, some of my proudest possessions are physical copies of this series and the "Walking with ..." collection. Got them both as gifts back in middle school when the (physical) Discovery stores were still around.
The same thing happened to me when I saw that episode of The Golden Girls where they go to Soviet Russia. Then a professor played a clip of it to set up a lecture and I nearly lost my dam mind
"In the future all clothing is soy based, i could eat my boots if i wanted to"- the only line i remember from the future is wild kids cartoon
I actually remember an episode where the animal b story was about the Amazonian terror birds and one of them it's like comforting the other
like "bro, you failed once but now we got chu fam, let's go be the murderous bastards we were born to be k?" and I thought it was real wholesome
“In my future science doesn’t exist, my future is WILDER, put that under your microscope and smoke it!”
I was obsessed with this show for like a year when I was a kid. I actually forgot what it was called for years after so I wasn't able to find it again until relatively recently.
Wait, you're telling me that cheesy cartoon I loved as a kid wasn't a strange fever dream?
Welcome to the Club. XD
OMG SAME!!! 🤣🤣🤣
Honestly for the longest while I couldn’t find it anywhere so I just generally assume it was some kind of fever dream too! 😅
Awkward fact: cg was Mai first waifu back in high school
omg pumpkin is amazing i never seen a kitty like that
I want a world full of big pumpkins
Gigantamaxed meowth
How were his neighbors just going to ditch that little angel?
Pumpkin should be in more vids
Such a long boi
I understand Billiam's childhood love of speculative future documentaries. I remember as a kid, staying up until midnight to watch the series premiere of Life After People on History Channel. It examined an Earth where the human race just suddenly disappeared from the day after up to a million years after. It definitely takes a darker tone with the Earth not necessarily recovering from a million years of human activity. Each episode explores that concept from a slightly different angle, like in a s2 episode where pollution doesn't fade away, it actually gets worse and just blends into the new environment. It's more interesting than fun like The Future Is Wild, but still a good watch.
We once had to watch the whole series in primary school and then had homework were we had to make up our own future animal and write about it as well as a few sketches.
Sounds like fun.
"Poggle, what did you do??"
Poggle: "they took my stapler..."
I was a huge fan of After Man and the Future is Wild as a kid, still am. I remember telling my best friend about how I saw a documentary that said squids might swing on trees in the future. She said "are you sure that wasn't a dream you had?"
When I was a kid, I watched the National Geographic VHS about desert animals because I was obsessed with the shovel-snouted lizard's "the sand is too hot" dance. I remember trips to the library always included a stop at the section of National Geographic tapes so I could pick out a new critter to obsess over.
I can’t be the only one who loved watching The Future is Wild animated show on discovery kids, right after Growing up Creepy and Kid Tut
Don't forget Grossology and Time Warp Trio
You aren't. But I have never met anyone who knew what I was talking about whenever I mentioned grossology and the future is wild cartoon show.
We need a final documentary to completely the trilogy, Driving with Dinosaurs.
Zooming with Dinosaurs.
Flying with dinosaurs,
@@jah24car ahhh, the modern day one
no joke, I'd watch a whole series of Billiam explaining basic evolutionary science that I forgot about from school
If I remember correctly, they did a special version of this promoting the Spores game from Maxis studio
200 million years in the future gave me a feeling of existential terror
I’m loving that you’re taking a step into the world of documentaries, maybe discuss Dinosaur Planet one time
Wasn't that the name of the game that became Star Fox Adventures?
As someone who lives off of speculative zoology, The Future Is Wild is a godsend
Bruh we need a new series
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Deep existential dread and arachnophobia fuel in one convenient package. Fantastic!