History Fridge / TheFutureIsWild

** Why would unintelligent, pelagic squid colonize the land before highly intelligent, primarily coastal octopi?

** Well, there ''are'' various species of colonial animals today; they're called [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siphonophorae siphonophores]], each species of which is actually a bunch of several smaller animals. Just as one example, the man-o'-war has a smaller, cuter (and certainly less dangerous relative, called the "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velella by-the-wind sailor]]". It's not farfetched to think more species of colonial animals would evolve as a single colony into new, "collective" species.

** Well, there ''are'' various species of colonial animals today; they're called [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siphonophorae siphonophores]], each species of which is actually a bunch of several smaller animals. Just as one example, the man-o'-war has a smaller, cuter (and certainly less dangerous relative, called the "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velella by-the-wind sailor]]". (It's funny how a lot of them have odd nautical names.)

* FridgeHorror: In the 200 million years timeline, birds have gone extinct. Meaning that the dinosaur linege would finally have ''truly'' been wiped out for good.

*** Neoteny - a well-known evolutionary process by which adult animals retain more and more infantile traits. Humans are neotenized apes, and furthermore the entire vertebrate family is descended from sea squirt larvae.

*** Neoteny - a well-known evolutionary process by which adult animals retain more and more infantile traits. Humans are neotenized apes, and furthermore the entire vertebrate family is descended from sponge larvae.

*** Paedomorphosis?

*** Neoteny - the process by which adult animals retain more and more infantile traits. Humans are neotenized apes, and furthermore the entire vertebrate family is descended from sponge larvae.

*** Neoteny?

*** Neoteny?

** Also, the show states that the silver swimmers evolved from ''larval'' crustaceans. How did the ''baby'' version of an animal evolved into something?

** Also, the show states that the silver swimmers evolved from ''larval'' crustaceans. How did the ''baby'' version of an animal evolved into something?

** Apparently silverswimmers evolved to replace fish, which are said to have become extinct 100 million years ago. So how come they coexist with sharks, which, in every sense of the word, are definitely fish?

** Apparently silverswimmers evolved to replace fish, which are said to have become extinct 100 million years ago. So how come they coexist with sharks, which, in every sense of the word, are definitely fish.

** The Deathbottle spreads its seeds by luring Bumblebeetles into its inner cavity, where the seeds stick onto the insect. It does so by imitating a dead Flish. But earlier on, the program made it clear that Bumblebeetles don't even crawl into ''real'' Flish carcasses either; they just land on them, and it's the larvae that dig themselves into the meat.

** They explain why mammals die out. The world grows more and more warm and humid, conditions where mammals are at a disadvantage against birds and reptiles. Yes, we are in the Age of Mammals, but Earth also went through an Age of Trilobites once so...

* FridgeHorror: In the final episode, it is hinted that the squibbons will eventually become sentient and build a civilization. Cthulhu or Mind Flayers, anyone?
** And the last shot of that episode is a closeup of the Sun. Guess what happens later on.

*** According to the book, they're sexually mature and mate as larvae ("grimworms").

** Also: how do the bumblebeetles mate? They only live for a day, and as far as can be told they do not have some special mating ceremony like, say, california squid.

* FridgeLogic: Some of the evolutionary roads are a bit strange. The Ocean Phantom is a descendant of the Portuguese Man-O-War, which itself is a composite creature, meaning each creature making up the Man-O-War evolved together into the Phantom. And some species and even entire families that are well-known for their ability to adapt, like bats and rodents, just up and die out completely for no rational reason.