Rooting for the squids

We saw part of a strange show on Animal Planet the other night which depicted "what scientists think Earth will be like in 200,000,000 years!" There were gigantic animals which looked like a cross between tortoises and apatosauri, huge Lurkfishes which, well, lurked about in swampy areas, waiting to give other creatures paralyzing electric shocks and then gulping them down. It attacked a Swampus, which looked a bit like an octopus with a carapace, leaving a passle of baby Swumpuses motherless. Out in the great wide ocean, there were Sharkopaths - who made up the dopey names? - which communicated with other pack members via bioluminescent flashings on their sides. They tracked down a 100 foot long Rainbow Squid, which was putting on a light show for potential mates and - of course, it was calamari time for the Sharkopaths. Nearly every creature was electrified or bioluminescent or both, and the narration was on the idiotic side. I think I'd rather re-read Robert Silverberg's sci fi novella in his collection Sailing to Byzantium which concerned a man who traveled two hundred million years into the future, and wound up in the body of a lobster. Much better diversion.