The book is quite light and is most suitable for chidren. It is not clear to me how much input Dixon had on the creature designs in the TV show, but they certainly feel like his work. In this is parallels the TV show exactly. It covers four environments from each era and looks at about three creatures from each environment. The book looks ahead 5 million years, 100 million years and 200 million years. I have read all of Dixon's earlier work in this genre. It is a work of fictional zoology which is a genre invented by Dougal Dixon. This book is a companion piece to the television series of the same name. Using state-of-the-art computer animation, The Future Is Wild is able to transform the imagination into actual images, creating a living world of strange creatures and extraordinary habitats. Another 100 million years and Earth is a single, huge supercontinent and one vast, warm ocean. In 100 million years, Earth is a global hothouse, brimming with life. Only the hardiest, most adaptable species are able to survive. In five million years, Northern Europe and North America are covered by ice sheets. Warrior terabytes disable victims by spraying chemicals at them. Toratons, descendents of tortoises, are the biggest animals ever to walk the Earth. It cannot fly, but the carakiller is the Amazon's swiftest predator. What creatures will roam the land or swim in the oceans? The Future Is Wild brings to life a world of amazing creatures and sets them loose in our imagination.īased on fundamental biological and evolutionary principles, they could - and may yet - exist: 5 million years from now. Imagine the world in the far distant future - a world without humans, a world so different from ours that, until now, it's been impossible to consider.

The future is wild dougal dixon