What Animals On Earth Will Look Like In a Million Years

you call your beloved cat to have his dinner sir scratchy suddenly you hear loud stomping the dishes on the dinner table clink with every thump a painting's fallen off the wall is it an earthquake no that's a cat the size of a pony walking into the dining room it needs 10 times as much food as the average cat and it purrs like a tractor no scratchy stop rolling you'll turn over the cupboard well this is one possible scenario for the evolution of animals in the future climate water oxygen in the air and even gravity are factors that influence the course of evolution for example scientists predict that some bird species will gradually lose their warm feathers in the future they will basically look like sphynx cats with beaks and wings the same thing might happen to our pets gradually their fur will become shorter until they're completely bald urban pests like pigeons and rats will become even bigger the size of a cat a few million years ago rats were barely the size of your little finger that's because they hid in small burrows and had to be nearly invisible to large predators now they live in comfortable cellars that humans have built they can create cozy nests there and the large amount of food and trash cans keeps them from starving so they feel quite comfortable and continue to grow in size even more rats have already developed oily fur so that dirty or toxic water can run off them without harming the rodents themselves plant-eating mammals on the other hand might have it worse their food will gradually diminish with time there will be fewer forests and greenery on the planet and some plants will disappear altogether eventually animals like deer elephants giraffes and others will get smaller and smaller because of the lack of food in addition to shrinking mammals will have smaller eyes so they don't lose water from their bodies and their ears will become larger to lose heat through them their tails will grow longer to swat away insects as land mammals become smaller birds will increase in size that's because they'll be able to include shrinking animals in their diet and the mussels of birds will become much stronger because they'll have to fly long distances in search of food animals in hot and dry places are more likely to learn how to get water from the air to do so they'll need long sails or skin flaps early in the morning when the air is coolest moisture will accumulate on these new body parts and some lizards will evolve their collars to a much larger size then they'll be able to collect more rainwater as for the marine world we can already see some fish jumping out of the water to catch insects in the course of evolution fish fins may become longer and stronger so that they can leap further and gradually those fins will turn into wings to make them truly flying fish perhaps in the future these fish will hunt small birds to do that they'll learn to hold their breath for longer and fly much higher but the big fish and marine mammals will have a hard time the ocean will heat up and some species will begin to disappear the largest inhabitant of the aquatic world the blue whale which is the size of two school buses will shrink in size because there will be less food for it in the ocean but the population of lizards and reptiles will thrive they're good at absorbing heat and with climate change there will be more insects on our planet which means more food for lizards they'll start to increase in size but now they'll have to defend themselves against big birds their legs will become longer and stronger so they'll be able to run a lot faster and not get eaten by a bird and the insects well they'll just explode insects will probably live in huge swarms and fly around looking for food and they'll be angry and hungry because their usual source of food mammals will have either ceased to exist or shrunk in size humans will change too scientists predict that between one thousand and one million years from now we will completely lose our hair our limbs will become thinner and longer and will be about seven feet tall our feet will most likely lose their toes because they're no longer needed to keep our balance our head and brain will become more like a balloon and our lifespan will be more than 100 years because humans are at the top of the food chain and don't take part in natural selection we'll gradually become similar to each other in tens of millions of years all humans will probably look the same plus we're developing genetic engineering technology luminous rabbits incredibly sized cows web weaving goats super muscular pigs and more but we're more interested in how animals will evolve on their own so fast forward ahead in time humans have long lived on other planets and in other galaxies earth has long since become home to animals and plants the only traces of humans here are giant cities made of metal and concrete that are buried deep underground and up there incredible creatures like the necropteryx live it's something between an ostrich and a vulture the size of an adult human its long and powerful beak is its main tool for protection against predators and for eating their strong legs with long claws make them excellent runners this creature can walk dozens of miles in a day necropderyx needs warm fur or feathers without humans and the greenhouse effect the temperature on earth has dropped but with a warm jacket they'll be able to survive even a new ice age and like ostriches they reproduce by laying eggs this is a para shrew it's like a common shrew a couple of inches long but it has an unusual feature a parachute on its tail while little they live in their parents nests but when they leave them they launch themselves into the air and then open a parachute made of thin fur the warm currents of air rise up and carry them they can spend up to 24 hours in the air then they'll nest elsewhere and their babies will leave their home the same way the this animal looks like a striped giraffe with only two legs it'll be one of the fastest creatures on our planet no predator can beat it in a race plus their eyes are perched high on their head and with its long neck the waka can see a threat even when sitting in tall grass terabytes are descendants of termites that will appear on earth in 200 million years if they see a threat they'll spew a stream of chemicals something like acid from their huge head even the biggest predators will be afraid to approach them reed stilts are about three and a half feet tall and weigh almost as much as an adult human thanks to its striped coloring a reed stilt is almost invisible in the reeds it walks on its thin legs through marshy terrain and feeds on small fish its long neck and sharp teeth allow it to dash into the water almost cobra cobra-like it catches fish and swallows them almost whole but all of these predictions are very speculative there are billions of factors that influence the course of evolution the course of evolution could go the other way at any time for example an asteroid hits the earth causing a mass extinction and changing our planet's climate a small percentage of surviving organisms begin to adapt to the new conditions in a few million years we'll have animals that none of us could have even imagined

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Id: P90a7naciGg

Length: 8min 1sec (481 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 28 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/Anonpancake2123]

Wtaf is this?

[u/ArcticZen]

It’s a bit out there; can’t say it’s my favorite. Basically did a report on some Dougal Dixon designs without appending credit either, which I can’t say is a good look.

[u/RAW02theOcrassipes]

Its a clickbait masterpiece!

[u/SnipedtheSniper]

I am pretty sure the animals from the thumbnail were taken from here

[u/GreatBluePanda]

At 6:23 They mention the animal from the book we remember?

[u/Interlectualtrex]

To anyone who didn't know:

• The Necropteryx is from a French book called "Demain les animaux du futur"
• The Parashrew, Waka and Reedstilt are all from a book called "After man"
• And the Terabytes are from a tv program called "The future is wild"

[u/LordOakFerret]

And then all these idiot viewers don’t know our community and and think, Neat! Bright side is so smart! When Dougal Dixon and who ever invented the necropteryx get stolen from. when their not plagiarising their making incredibly inaccurate claims. >:(