On the trip, they discover that Manny, in fact, is not the last of the woolly mammoths.Using an iceberg as a ship, they encounter sea creatures and battle pirates as they explore a new world.So, with that in mind, here is a list of dinosaurs that appear in the film and when and where they existed.A passing knowledge of Earths history would inform the viewer that this is not meant to be an accurate representation of the real ice age that began over 2 million years ago.
Normally, this could be seen as a criticism but to do so in this case would detract from the fact that these are animated, child-orientated films and to fault it for its lack of historical accuracy would be like calling a kid stupid for not knowing Mesozoic from Cenozoic. If the Ice Age films made one child curious enough to look up mega fauna or geology then its done its job. While it may seem odd that we would consider our current era as an ice age, consider that during the cretaceous period global temperatures were on average 10 degrees Celsius warmer. Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006) seems to suggest that it was later in the ice age as things are well, melting. If we were to assume that a saber-toothed squirrel accidentally caused the separation of Pangea then either Scrat can travel back in time or the film takes place over 200 million years before the current ice age. In Ice Age (2002), Scrat is frozen in a block of ice and is set adrift. The film indicates that 20,000 years later he washes up onto a desert island. We cannot really use the coconut palm on the island to indicate a time period as fossil records show coconuts developed anywhere from 37 to 55 million years ago, but the climate does seem to indicate that it is closer to the climate we have today. So, that would date the story to around 20 thousand years ago, around 9 thousand years before the beginning of the Holocene period and the beginning of the inter-glacial period. Megalonyx, giant ground sloths, existed between 10.3 million years ago to 11,000 years ago. Mammoths existed from around 5 million years ago to 4,500 years ago. Smilodons, saber-toothed cats, existed between 2.5 million years ago to 10,000 years ago. ![]() So yes, humans did coexist with mammoths, sloths and smilodons (and may have in fact been partially responsible for their extinctions); though this factoids is fairly obvious when you look at cave paintings. Giant ground sloths were very, very large, in some species almost twice the height of a human. Sid is comically shown to be smaller than adult humans, but I guess having him tower over everything would detract from his wacky antics. ![]() Ice Age S Movie Jurassic ParkThe more general term of dinosaur, however, tends to mean big reptiles with claws and teeth, you know, the ones we see in the movie Jurassic Park (1993) (itself a problematic title). While the film tries to depict the dinosaurs as having survived in a pocket of jungle, it doesnt take away from the fact dinosaurs went extinct around 63 million years before the Ice Age story takes place. And this is troubling as they appeared to have survived without any new evolutionary adaptations, except maybe the development of cuteness. Then again, they are in an enclave and may have had no environmental pressures pushing for a need to adapt. Dusk may be dower for children but the sad reality is that all of these adorable creatures are now extinct. For many people, the terms Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous are well known as periods within the Mesozoic era, the era when reptiles ruled the Earth.
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