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It is millions of years in the future. 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 and hippos, chimps, and rhinos and elephants -- all gone. Instead evolution has created new and bizarre creatures beyond our wildest imagination.

This is not fantasy. A team of scientists -- biologists, chemists, geologists and oceanographers -- have put the time machine of science into the future.

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

The Future Is Wild.

Watch our two-hour special, 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.

Tune in Saturday, Sept. 6, at 8 p.m. ET/PT.

Inspired by The Future Is Wild

The makers of the much anticipated game, Spore, were inspired by The Future Is Wild. The game allows players to create their own creatures of the future to survive in a strange and changing universe.

Learn more about Spore.