#Ice age meltdown characters series

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.

#Ice age meltdown characters series

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.