![]() The sounds used for Cretaceous and Maelstrom's vocalizations were those of whales, coupled with tigers growling and human voices to give an eerie quality. This would also justify what is written in the Essential Guide, namely that they have been frozen a million years before the ice age, while actually both of their species went extinct about 90 million years ago (even though it's possible some still survived). It's also possible that he and Maelstrom came from the Dinosaur World (despite its existence has been revealed only in the following movie), and during the millions years in which the pliosaurs and the ichthyosaurs lived there, they changed their appearances in the ones of the two specimens seen in the second movie. Ice Age: The Meltdown (First appearance)Ĭretaceous is revealed to be an ichthyosaur in the Essential Guide, though his appearance is altered for artistic purposes, as actual ichthyosaurs had less pointed dorsal fins, little or no neck, no armor plating, a more streamlined body, proportionate fins and a dolphin-like snout.Has a collection of images and media related to Cretaceous/Gallery. Scrat can damage Cretaceous when he becomes exhausted. He chases Scrat and throws a temper tantrum when hit by snow ball. Cretaceous propelled through the icy waters with two strong front legs and two small hind fins, the former of which could be used to haul himself onto land or any surface should the need arise.Ĭretaceous appeared as second boss in the game along with Maelstrom. Cretaceous was a large ichthyosaur, thickly built with an elongated snout lined with many pointed teeth ideal for slicing into prey, faintly glowing yellow eyes, a spiny sail and tail equipped with a long fishlike fin, and armor-like purple scales that were topped off with small spikes and bumps. Cretaceous was also shown to be greedy, as he targeted Manny, who was the largest one in the herd.Ĭretaceous, like his larger companion Maelstrom, was incapable of speech and so communicated in loud growls, hisses or roars. Cretaceous and Maelstrom were shown to be aggressive and relentless when pursuing their prey, and they got angry easily if it escaped from them. In the novelization, it is revealed that their remains were eaten by the Lone Gunslinger and the vultures for cheating to eating animals for food.Ĭretaceous had a personality similar to Maelstrom, they were both vicious, hostile, hot-tempered, impatient and ravenous. ![]() The plan worked, freeing Ellie, and the boulder came down on the two reptiles. Manny devised a plan to rid himself of the two sea reptiles, by having them try to chase him, he tricked them into hitting a log that was wedged under a large rock. Both Cretaceous and Maelstrom pulled down Manny when he was swimming to save Ellie. Later, when the dam broke, the two angry sea reptiles went swimming on the wall of water that was slowly approaching towards the escaping masses of animals. Knowing they could not catch the mammals on land, the two reptiles leered angrily at them and sunk below the waters. ![]() Taking advantage of this, Cretaceous made a great pounce at Manny, but was caught on his tusks, and flung far off, hitting a piece of ice and falling back into the water. Manny then saw that the ice block they were floating on was tipping because of Manny's weight. Maelstrom made the first move, breaking through the ice as Cretaceous joined in the chase, going after Manny, trapping him on an ice floe and slithering after him. The two sea reptiles then swam further down the series of rivers where they eventually reached a herd of mammals led by a mammoth named Manny, consisting of a ground sloth named Sid, a Saber-Tooth Tiger named Diego, another mammoth named Ellie and a pair of opossums named Crash and Eddie. Upon emerging into the lake, both Cretaceous and Maelstrom encountered their first prey animal: a glyptodon named Stu, who was swimming in the lake until both reptiles caught Stu and devoured him, leaving behind only his shell and swimming off further through the lakes after their next meal.Ĭretaceous is stopped from attacking Manny.Ĭretaceous and Maelstrom lose their temper Having been in stasis for one million years, both reptiles had developed an intense hunger and were quick to seek out prey in this new world, dominated by mammals, which both reptiles found as more of a challenge to pursue than the reptiles of their era. The ice melted, releasing both Maelstrom and Cretaceous into the lake, which was all but abandoned by most animals. After all that time, however, the great block of ice that contained both reptiles was jarred loose when the wall of ice that it was attached to began crumbling, landing in a vast lake at the end of a valley.
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