This let loose a stream of water, evidence that the current ice age was ending. This began the continents to drift apart, leaving Scrat stranded on a single patch of land with nothing but an empty acorn shell.īy the second film, Scrat made his way to a great glacier and yanked out his beloved acorn from the side. Scrat took his anger out on a nearby palm tree and was hit on the head by a coconut, which more than compensates for 20,000 years and a lost acorn.Īt some point after Scrat's travels up north, he stockpiled many acorns into a tree stump, but mistakenly stocked them too tight, which caused them to shoot out of the stump and into the sky, taking poor Scrat with them and eventually, one would jet back down to Earth with the impact of a guided missile, causing the land beneath to rupture. However, he lost his nut, presumebly forever. 2000 years later, At some point after the Ice Age films (as shown in the epilogue of the first movie), Scrat was frozen, while in pursuit of his acorn and thawed out 20,000 years later on a tropical island. Eventually His acorn is frozen and when he tries to thaw it, turns into a piece of popcorn. As time went on, Scrat unknowingly followed Manfred and the others up north, getting flung into the sky, and sliding through ice slides. Eventually, Scrat would make his way to a tree and try to bury his acorn there, but inevitably would use it as a lightning rod by mistake. However, Scrat escaped, only to be stepped on by masses of migrating animals. This began a chain reaction, which cracked more and more ice, until an entire glacier came crashing down, nearly smashing Scrat. With enough force, he stomped down on it, causing the ice around it to crack. He tried to bury it into the snow, but with little success, as the snow itself was frozen solid. Scrat is shown in the first film, naively making his way through the ice age with his only possession: One single acorn. Phylogenetic analysis has reinforced this theory and lends tenuous, yet encouraging evidence to the fact that the creature “Scrat”, made famous by the popular Ice Age animated movies, may indeed have been a direct ancestor of the common Delmarva Fox Squirrel (Sciurus niger cinereus). This corresponds with the current 31 million year estimate the point at which, so-called “modern day” squirrels were thought to have diverged from a common ancestor and were later introduced into Western North America, most probably as a result of continental drift.įurther laboratory analysis of the unidentified mammal’s jaw structure, revealed the presence of a primordial, saber-like tooth structure, while a computer-generated reconstruction of its backbone and tail revealed the animal to have possibly been a common ancestor of the common day squirrel. Palaeozoologists working within the University of Science and Technology, Ottawa, were on an expedition in the Ottawan Mountain Range, and while engaged in a dig, came across what appeared to be the partially-preserved fossilized remains of a small mammalian creature, dated to be approximately 36 million years old. Scrat is also nutty when it comes to his acorn.Īn example of one of Scrat's torture. He was struck by lightning, chased by avalanches, got into fights with piranhas and Sid (In the first film after the dodo bird fight). Scrat is usually a glutton for punishment, having to risk his life to get his nut back. This doesn't last for long as he always loses it. Once succeeded, he usually hugs it, buries it or pretends to eat it. Scrat also has small saber-teeth similar to a saber-tooth tiger and a large curled bushy tail nearly as big as his body. He has a pointed jaw like a rat and a body similar to a squirrel. Scrat is a crossover of a squirrel and a rat (hence the name Sc-rat), is small and has brownish fur.
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