Welcome to the Future

Return of the Ice

The Vanished Sea

Prairies of Amazonia

Cold Kansas Desert

Waterland

Flooded World

Tropical Antarctica

The Great Plateau

The Endless Desert

The Global Ocean

Graveyard Desert

The Tentacled Forest

Season 1

Documentary

The Future Is Wild

Animal Planet

Specials

The Future Is Wild was a 2002 thirteen-part documentary television miniseries. Based on research and interviews with several scientists, the miniseries shows how life could evolve in the future if Homo sapiens left the earth. The version broadcast on the Discovery Channel modified this premise, supposing instead that the human race had completely abandoned the Earth and had sent back probes to examine the progress of life on the planet. The show took the form of a nature documentary.

The miniseries was released with a companion book written by geologist Dougal Dixon, the author of several "anthropologies and zoologies of the future", in conjunction with natural history television producer John Adams. For a time in 2005, a theme park based on this program was opened in Japan. In 2008 a special on the Discovery Channel about the development of the video game Spore was combined with airings of The Future Is Wild.

A film version of the series was picked up by Warner Bros.