What Will Earth Be Like 300 Million Years From Now?

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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[martijnvanweele]

"Will you look into PBS Eons?"
"what will I see?"
"Things that were, things that are, and some things that have not yet come to pass..."

[qyjqkrd]

People always say that living forever would suck, but it’s my curiosity about these sorts of things that make me disagree.

[lerneanlion]

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.

[SciMinute]

This episode brought back memories of The Future is Wild! 😂

[vgfytjbtff]

"Amasia" looks like a pun in portuguese - as if the continent are "amasiados" (meaning they became lovers)

[Ythnewg]

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

[sephirothjc]

The fact that we missed cat-sized horses makes me sad.

[nsnopper]

I learned from Star Trek: Voyager that mankind will evolve into salamanders.

[normanmendez]

Eons has come full circle, looking at the past to looking at the present now to looking at the future

[mouselet]

Failed rift valley in the US? Can you do an episode on that and other similar terrain features in the future?

[jameshill]

"We're getting the band back together."
"We're on a mission from Gwondana."

[kailawkamo]

This episode reminded me of The Future is Wild. What a trip down memory lane ❤

[jaquessiemasz]

May PBS Eons last 100 million years! ❤

[icekangaroo]

Kinda wish this was a much longer video there’s a lot of speculation that could be interesting to see.

[butterw]

6:20 "We're getting the band back together"

Can't wait for the Pangea Reunion Album to drop!

[evangeloevoxi]

I've been waiting for a video like this for so long! I love hypothesizing about the distant future.... Thank you!!! 💜💙💚

[ancient_orchards]

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.

[AntoniusTyas]

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.

[alumba]

If even Michelle can't easily say multituberculates, there's no hope for me

[rockingthemike]

this was a fascinating episode. great work, eons team!