This is a seven-part live-action/CG TV miniseries based on Dougal Dixon's 1981 book of the same name that first aired on MyNetworkTV on January 6, 2017. It is made in Australia and produced by Fred the Ostrich Enterprises. After two episodes have aired, it was later shown as the second half of the anthology series The Stephen Silver Animation Hour (featuring Fred the Ostrich & His Pals two years later. Another similar Dougal Dixon-based miniseries The New Dinosaurs: The Alternative Evolution and an hour-long special Man After Man: The Anthropology of the Future will be made shortly later that year.
Episodes[]
- Temperate Woodlands and Grasslands - A look at how rabbits evolve to replace deer, how rats evolve replace wolves as predators, and how some insectivores evolve to grow bigger and eat fish and walk on lakes. (January 6, 2017)
- Coniferous Forests - A look at how antelopes evolve to have keratin covering their faces and become hornheads and how surviving beavers evolve to have their tails and hind legs combine to be an ideal structure to for gripping pine tree's rough barks. (November 17, 2017)
- Tundra and the Polar Regions - A look at future wildlife in tundras, polar oceans, and alpine mountains, predicting how Woolly Gigantelopes evolved from antelopes to replace musk-oxen, how crows evolve to predatory bootie birds, how penguins fill the niches whales and dolphins once had, and how rats fill the niches seals, walruses, and polar bears once had as well. (April 12, 2019)
- Deserts - A look at future desert wildlife of the world, with prediction of how sand rats evolve to replace camels by growing bigger in size. (April 26, 2019)
- Tropical Grasslands - A look at future tropical grassland wildlife, with prediction of how guinea fowls evolve to replace ostriches by becoming bigger and not being able to fly, how Raboons evolved from baboons to replace lions and cheetahs as predators, and how Gigantelopes evolved from antelopes to replace elephants and rhinos. (July 21, 2019)
- Tropical Forests - A look at future tropical rainforest life, to predict how marsupials share their habits with pigs, sloths, and monkeys, wild pigs become their browsing and ant-eating forms, and how water rodents fill the niche hippos once had. (July 28, 2019)
- Islands and Island Continents - A look at how South America separates from North and Central America to be a huge island, part of Africa splits to be the island of Lemuria (populated by hoofed animals), and how Batavia (the island world of future bats) and Pacaus Archipelago are created. (Unaired)