

The female is green with a slender beak for snatching insects and carrion.ĭesert Leaper, a large hopping rodent and the largest desert mammal on Earth. Males are red with massive beaks for eating pine cones.

This tick bird feasts on these flies and it makes its nest in the furrow of the antelope's back.Ĭommon Pine Chuck, a bird in which the two sexes look like different species. It is covered with warts that attract flies - and a species of tickbird. It has two ridges on its back, leaving a furrow along its spine. Unlike our beaver, this new beaver has its legs fused with its tail, like current day pinnipeds.īootie Bird, a large hawk-like descendant of crows.Ĭhirit, an inchworm-like rodent descended from squirrels.Ĭhiselhead, an inchworm-like rodent with massive incisors for chiseling through live trees.Ĭlatta, a sloth-like prosimian primate with an armored tail as protection against predators.Ĭleft-Back Antelope, a primitive-looking antelope from Lemuria. In 2002, a program on Animal Planet called The Future Is Wild advances further using more precise studies of biomechanics and future geological phenomena based on the past.Ĭreatures of After Man: A Zoology of the Future Anchorwhip, a venomous rainforest tree snake that uses an anchor-like tail to snatch birds and small mammals.Īngler Heron, a heron that creates a fish pond and baits it to attract fish.īardelot, a giant saber-toothed predatory rat.īeaver, a surviving rodent species. Dixon's later work Man After Man also includes man.

Paleontologist Peter Ward wrote another book on a different perspective on future evolution, one with humans intact as a species.

Several other books have been released and internet sites created with this thought in mind.
