By Karen Kier
Pharmacist on behalf of the ONU HealthWise team
Blue Sky Studios released five animated films in the popular franchise series about the ice age. The original Ice Age movie was released in 2002 and featured the voices of Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, and Chris Wedge. In 2016, the last of the movies created by the originator was released. The movies follow a group of animals trying to survive the Paleolithic ice age. Disney+ released a new spin-off of the franchise in January of 2022 titled “The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild.”
One of the popular characters in the Ice Age movie was the woolly mammoth known as Manfred or Manny. In the movie, Manny would not believe the woolly mammoth could ever be extinct. Unlike the movie, the woolly mammoth is extinct. Exactly when the extinction occurred is an interesting question being studied by scientists. Various fossils have been found around the world with very different carbon dating.
The woolly mammoth, the dodo bird, dinosaurs, and the Christmas Island sandpiper may not be the only extinct species. The CDC and the World Health Organization are researching the possibility of an extinction of the Yamagata influenza B virus.
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