Cretaceous was also shown to be greedy, as he targeted Manny, who was the largest one in the herd and Maelstrom was also shown to be an opportunistic predator, as he targeted Sid and Diego when they were separated from the others of the herd.Ĭretaceous and Maelstrom were first seen in the film, thawing out in a melting pack of ice. Cretaceous is slender blue purple Cymbospondylus and Maelstrom is bulky green pliosaur.Ĭretaceous and Maelstrom are both vicious, hostile, hot-tempered, impatient, aggressive, and ravenous predators and they got angry easily if it escaped from them. True pliosaurs had longer necks than is shown in Ice Age: The Meltdown, along with a longer crocodilian snout and no plates or scutes on their hides.Deceased Source Cretaceous & Maelstrom are the main antagonists of Blue Sky's 3rd animated feature film, Ice Age: The Meltdown.Their dead bodies were then discovered by mini-sloths, which carried them away to feed on. Eyed at this point by vultures, this left them to be sucked out of the area along with the waters through a giant crack in the ice wall, apparently dying in the process or soon afterwards when they were beached. If one is to assume all accounts of the fates of Maelstrom and Cretaceous are true, then the duo were likely mortally wounded after Manny tricked them to get stuck under a log and then subsequently crushed under a falling boulder. Maelstrom's partner-in-crime, Cretaceous. Within Maelstrom's digestive tract were several parasites: a number of stunted giant single-celled organisms and a large parasite with multiple eyes and a beak. Maelstrom was a large pliosaur, thickly built with a large mouth filled with sharp teeth ideal for breaking bone, faintly glowing yellow eyes and armour-like teal scales that were topped off with spikes and bumps, propelled through the icy waters with large, flat fins. Maelstrom, like Cretaceous, was incapable of speech and so communicated in loud growls or roars. Maelstrom was also shown to be an opportunistic predator, as he targeted Sid and Diego when they were separated from the others of the herd. Maelstrom had a personality similar to Cretaceous, they were both vicious, hostile, ravenous, hot-tempered, aggressive and relentless when pursuing their prey, and they got angry easily if it escaped from them. The plan worked, freeing Ellie, and knocking the two reptiles down with the boulder. 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. Later, when the dam broke, the two reptiles went swimming on the wall of water that was slowly approaching the escaping masses and pulled down Manny when he was swimming to save Ellie. Maelstrom intended to eat Sid but could not catch him, as Sid was already escaping with Diego, and had only just escaped Maelstrom as he broke off a massive chunk of ice where the sloth and the saber-tooth tiger had stood only moments before. The two sea reptiles then swam further down the series of rivers where they eventually reached Manny's herd as well as Crash, Eddie, and Ellie. When they made it to the ice lake, the first animal that they had encountered and eaten was Stu the glyptodon, leaving behind only his shell. The ice melted, releasing both Cretaceous and Maelstrom into the lake which was all but abandoned by most animals. Frozen long ago with Cretaceous during the era of the dinosaurs, Maelstrom was imprisoned in a great block of ice that was jarred loose when the wall of ice that it had been part of began crumbling, due to global warming loosening it.
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