The Future Is Wild Season 1 Episode 10 The Endless Desert 2002
The episode is set in the central desert of the new Pangea, 200 million years into the future. At this point in the future, there are no mammals, birds, reptiles or amphibians. The episode focuses on four species: (1) Terabyte, descendants of termites that live in massive air-conditioned underground cities where they farm algae. Each termite is built for a specific role. There are transporters, glue-spitters, diggers and other types too, which form a caste system. (2) Gloomworm, a simple worm that is descended from a single type of bristleworm which survived the mass extinction. (3) Slickribbon, a transparent creature with pincer jaws and a nasty sting. It appears to be descended from the same bristleworm as the Gloomworm. (4) Garden Worm, a descendant of the convoluta worm, the garden worm houses green algae in fleshy lobes that stick out like leaves from their backs. The algae convert sunlight into food to feed their host
- Released: 2002-06-04
- Runtime: 325 minutes
- Genre: Documentary
- Stars: Christian Rodska
- Director: Victoria Coules, Nicholas Hooper, Paul Pritchard, Pierre de Lespinois
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1. Welcome to the Future 2002-04-02
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2. Return of the Ice 2002-04-09
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3. The Vanished Sea 2002-04-16
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4. Prairies of Amazonia 2002-04-23
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5. Cold Kansas Desert 2002-04-30
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6. Waterland 2002-05-07
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7. Flooded World 2002-05-14
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8. Tropical Antarctica 2002-05-21
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9. The Great Plateau 2002-05-28
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10. The Endless Desert 2002-06-04
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11. The Global Ocean 2002-06-11
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12. Graveyard Desert 2002-06-18
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13. The Tentacled Forest 2002-06-25
