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It is millions of years in the future of Earth. Humans have left to colonize the solar system. Our planet has spent the last 5 million years fallow. Like a giant petri dish, evolution has taken its course. Almost every animal we know has disappeared. Tigers, bears, giraffes, hippos, chimps, rhinos and elephants — all are gone. Instead, evolution has created new and bizarre creatures beyond our wildest imagination.

This vision is not fantasy. A team of scientists — biologists, chemists, geologists and oceanographers — have put in motion the "time machine" of science — and are peering into the future.

This is what could happen. This is what will happen.

The Future Is Wild.

Watch four two-hour specials: a quest 5 million, 100 million and 200 million years into the future to witness the life-and-death struggles of the creatures that roam the Earth we once knew. At 5 million years, we find the last primate. At 100 million years, we find the last mammal, and at 200 million years, we find the next human-like creature. Along the way we see that the guiding forces of evolution have changed the creatures, but not the rules. It is still a world ruled by finding a mate, feeding one's offspring, and fighting off predators. It is still a world of survival of the fittest. The more things change, the more they stay the same.