We sort of have a soft spot in our hearts for all the Ice Age animals . And the latest addition Ice Age : Continental Drift await even more ludicrous than the last . Watch as the man breaks apart , separating the furry besties and create our planet ’s continent . Plus , giant prehistorical crabs ! Ice Age : Continental Drift hits theaters on July 13 , 2012 .
nonmigratory scientific discipline writer Robert say :
Ok , so the portrayal of Continental Drift ’s continental drift is obviously dramatized , right ? The continents — and the tectonic plates that they ’re on top of — would have shift ( and go along to shift ) much more slowly , but that ’s forgivable for the sake of storytelling . When it come to the question of scientific accuracy , you kind of have to prefer your battles ; I mean , this is a story about verbalise animals , think ?
But if you ’re going for the the single biggest “ historical ” inaccuracy , it ’s probably the fact that two million years ago , the Earth ’s continents look pretty much the same as they do today ( in terms of where they ’re settle ) . This map shows what the Earth likely looked like during what ’s known as the Neogene geologic geological period , which spanned 23–2.58 million years ago — so a full 500,000 years before this movie even contract space .
This map , by comparability , establish the continents ’ stance during the Paleogene period , which cross 65–23 mya . As you may see , continents are still very distinct . In other words , by two million years ago , the pangean top-notch continent shown breaking asunder in the laggard would n’t have even existed . Not by a tenacious shot .
But remember : we ’re separate hairs over a movie about talking animal friends .
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