Until now, researchers had only found one mammal skull in South America that dated back to the Age of Dinosaurs, a 130-million-year-old creature the size of a small opossum named Vincelestes neuquenianus. The mammals that lived in South America during the Age of Dinosaurs remain largely a mystery.
" Cronopio's skull was not designed to support large forces, so it could not use its saber-teeth to wrestle down prey like lions can with their canines," Rougier observed. In turn, it probably ate insects, grubs, other kinds of invertebrates and perhaps some small vertebrates. Rougier suggested Cronopio was likely prey for crocodiles and carnivorous dinosaurs. "This is probably what originally buried the animals." "The area had periodic floods," he added. "We do not know much about the flora, but there were at least some tall conifers." In contrast, when Cronopio was alive, "the area was a river floodplain with numerous other animals, including large carnivorous dinosaurs, large herbivores, terrestrial crocodiles, turtles, lizardlike sphenodontians and snakes," Rougier said. "The white bones are quite visible against the bright red sandstone we find here." "It looks like another planet," Rougier said of the site in Argentina. The scientists discovered the previously unknown 100-million-year-old species in a very arid, remote part of southwestern Argentina, which has yielded abundant skeletons of dinosaurs and small vertebrates in the past. "Still, we don't have living parallels with any canines quite as long as seen in Cronopio - it's just beyond the scales we know." "Modern-day insectivores use long canines mostly to just grab and hold prey," Rougier said. It’s timely, then, that the farewell of Scrat’s original creators become public now.It remains uncertain what Cronopio might have used its oversized fangs for, but long canine teeth in mammals nowadays are found mostly in insect-eaters.
SQUIRREL FROM ICE AGE SERIES
Yesterday, April 13, Disney released Ice Age: Scrat Tales on Disney+, a new series of shorts featuring Scrat, the former mascot of Blue Sky Studios.
Although Blue Sky Studio officially ceased its activities in April 2021, its franchises still belong to Disney. In February 2021, Disney announced that it would be shutting down the animation studio, citing the economic impact of the pandemic. Their last feature, Spies in Disguise, hit theaters in December 2019.īlue Sky Studios was one of the assets acquired by Disney in 2019, when the House of the Mouse bought a big chunk of 21st Century Fox through a multi-billion dollar deal. Besides creating the Ice Age and the Rio franchise, Blue Sky Studios was also behind critically acclaimed animated films such as Robots, Horton Hears a Who!, and The Peanuts Movie.
The studio released its first feature film, Ice Age, in 2002, giving birth to one of the most beloved franchises in the history of cinema. Blue Sky Studios was founded in 1987 as a company specializing in visual effects for commercial products.
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