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See also SaharanShipwreck.

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See also SaharanShipwreck.SaharanShipwreck and DesertSkull.
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* There are several big skeletons in ''{{Aquaria}}''. A big one in the NoobCave that can be swim through, the other ones are more in the background, at least one of them is from a creature that can also be encountered alive, and these creatures are indestructible, (for the player anyway) and quite gentle, so that makes it extra sinister.

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* There are several big skeletons in ''{{Aquaria}}''.''VideoGame/{{Aquaria}}''. A big one in the NoobCave that can be swim through, the other ones are more in the background, at least one of them is from a creature that can also be encountered alive, and these creatures are indestructible, (for the player anyway) and quite gentle, so that makes it extra sinister.
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* Near the end of the "Rite of Spring" section of ''{{Fantasia}}'' there is a desert littered with dinosaur bones.
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* [[YuGiOhCardGame Yu-Gi-Oh!]] has a living example in the monster [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Temple_of_Skulls Temple of Skulls]].
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* ''[[StarFox Star Fox 64]]'' features a number of these in Titania Arid Desert, foreshadowing the skeletal BossFight with Goras at the end of the level.

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* ''[[StarFox ''[[VideoGame/StarFox Star Fox 64]]'' features a number of these in Titania Arid Desert, foreshadowing the skeletal BossFight with Goras at the end of the level.
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* Many stages in ''WarioLand: Shake It!'' feature dinosaur bones.

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* Many stages in ''WarioLand: ''VideoGame/WarioLand: Shake It!'' feature dinosaur bones.
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* ''YoshisIsland'' DS has several large beast skeletons lying around in the "desert" levels.

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* ''YoshisIsland'' ''VideoGame/YoshisIsland'' DS has several large beast skeletons lying around in the "desert" levels.
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Like [[AlienSky an oddly-colored sky with more than one sun]], this is one of those surefire ways of letting the audience know that the story has taken them to a world vastly different from our own. Just stick a ginormous monster skeleton somewhere in the scenery, and presto, instant [[AlternateUniverse otherworld]]! [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs Dinosaur bones]] may be substituted to indicate another time period instead of another world entirely.

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Like [[AlienSky an oddly-colored sky with more than one sun]], multiple suns or moons]], this is one of those surefire ways of letting the audience know that the story has taken them to a world vastly different from our own. Just stick a ginormous monster skeleton somewhere in the scenery, and presto, instant [[AlternateUniverse otherworld]]! Interestingly, the heroes almost never encounter a ''living'' monster of that type, or one [[{{Squick}} in an earlier state of decay]]. Sometimes, [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs Dinosaur dinosaur bones]] may be substituted to indicate another time period instead of another world entirely.
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* ''{{Adventure Time}}'' had an episode where Finn and Jake carry tarts through a desert wasteland. At some point, they walk in between the bones of this dead, giant creature and climb through its eye socket. Oddly, it seemed that its brain hadn't fully decayed yet.

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* ''{{Adventure Time}}'' ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' had an episode where Finn and Jake carry tarts through a desert wasteland. At some point, they walk in between the bones of this dead, giant creature and climb through its eye socket. Oddly, it seemed that its brain hadn't fully decayed yet.
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* One is present in ''HunterPrey''.
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* Some made-for-TV movie with Jack and the Beanstalk as the back-story had a shot of a dragon on a hill in the Giant's realm in the flashback, and the same shot of it's skeleton when said realm is revisited in the present.

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* Some made-for-TV movie with Jack and the Beanstalk as the back-story had a shot of a dragon on a hill in the Giant's realm in the flashback, and the same shot of it's its skeleton when said realm is revisited in the present.
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** And in ''A Link to the Past'', both the western swamp and the LostWoods are littered with huge monster bones, most of which are actually [[RibcageRidge ribcages]]. In fact, many ''Zelda'' games have human and monster skulls littered about, which can be broken to get health, money, keys, or health-restoring fairies.

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** And in ''A Link to the Past'', both the western swamp and the DarkWorld LostWoods are littered with huge monster bones, most of which are actually [[RibcageRidge ribcages]]. In fact, many ''Zelda'' games have human and monster skulls littered about, which can be broken to get health, money, keys, or health-restoring fairies.
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** In the VGA remake, it resembles a Krayt Dragon skeleton from the ''StarWars'' verse.
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* ''{{Adventure Time}}'' had an episode where Finn and Jake carry tarts through a desert wasteland. At some point, they walk in between the bones of this dead, giant creature and climb through its eye socket. Oddly, it seemed that its brain hadn't fully decayed yet.
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** A giant dinosaur skeleton is on the Uncharted Isle from MySims Kingdom.
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* The title characters encounter some on an alien planet in ''[[Film/MightyMorphinPowerRangers Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie]]''. They turn out to be DemBones.
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* You walk down a spinal column of a giant deceased Dragon in [[LikeABadassFromHell Hades]] in QuestForGlory 5: Dragonfire.
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* In ''{{Naruto}}'', [[spoiler:Madara]]'s hideout (which includes his lab, [[spoiler:the statue tailed beasts are sealed in ([[SummonMagic most of the time]]), and his mindless clone of the 1st Hokage]]) turns out to be a mountainous area covered in. We eventually learn this place is called "Mountains' Graveyard".

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* In ''{{Naruto}}'', [[spoiler:Madara]]'s hideout (which includes his lab, [[spoiler:the statue tailed beasts are sealed in ([[SummonMagic most of the time]]), and his mindless clone of the 1st Hokage]]) turns out to be a mountainous area covered in.in giant animal skeletons of unknown origin. We eventually learn this place is called "Mountains' Graveyard".
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* In ''{{Naruto}}'', [[spoiler:Madara]]'s hideout (which includes his lab, [[spoiler:the statue tailed beasts are sealed in ([[SummonMagic most of the time]]), and his mindless clone of the 1st Hokage]]) turns out to be a mountainous area covered in. We eventually learn this place is called "Mountains' Graveyard".

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*** And in ''A Link to the Past'', both the western swamp and the LostWoods are littered with huge monster bones, most of which are actually [[RibcageRidge ribcages]]. In fact, many ''Zelda'' games have human and monster skulls littered about, which can be broken to get health, money, keys, or health-restoring fairies.

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*** [[WildMassGuessing Maybe, one huge dodongo choked to death while trying to swallow another giant dodongo whole, and then they both fossilized and were slowly covered up by the mountain!]]
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And in ''A Link to the Past'', both the western swamp and the LostWoods are littered with huge monster bones, most of which are actually [[RibcageRidge ribcages]]. In fact, many ''Zelda'' games have human and monster skulls littered about, which can be broken to get health, money, keys, or health-restoring fairies.

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** How big you ask? [[http://spore.wikia.com/wiki/File:Hyper_Skeleton.png this]] [[http://spore.wikia.com/wiki/File:Hyper_Footprint.png big]]. [[http://spore.wikia.com/wiki/File:Epic_by_Dinosaur_Bones.png In this one the spider looking guy is a regular epic, and the smaller creature is regular sized]].



* In ''Spore'' there are bones of gigantic creatures far larger than "epic creatures" liberally strewn through the landscape. How big? [[http://spore.wikia.com/wiki/File:Hyper_Skeleton.png this]] [[http://spore.wikia.com/wiki/File:Hyper_Footprint.png big]]. [[http://spore.wikia.com/wiki/File:Epic_by_Dinosaur_Bones.png In this one the spider looking guy is a regular epic, and the smaller creature is regular sized]].
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* In ''Spore'' there are bones of gigantic creatures far larger than "epic creatures" liberally strewn through the landscape. How big? [[http://spore.wikia.com/wiki/File:Hyper_Skeleton.png this]] [[http://spore.wikia.com/wiki/File:Hyper_Footprint.png big]]. [[http://spore.wikia.com/wiki/File:Epic_by_Dinosaur_Bones.png In this one the spider looking guy is a regular epic, and the smaller creature is regular sized]].
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*** [[HitchikersGuideToTheGalaxy No word on the petunias, though.]]

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*** [[HitchikersGuideToTheGalaxy [[TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy No word on the petunias, though.]]
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* Present in ''DonkeyKongCountryReturns''.
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* The first world in ''SecretOfEvermore'', a prehistoric-styled jungle, contains a "Mammoth Graveyard" that serves as a battle arena. Sticking out of the unpleasant muck are the remains of woolly mammoths; giant tusks frame the path to the next area.
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* ''{{Primal}}'' - There's a Ribcage Ridge underwater. It's the skeleton of a giant fish, naturally.
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* Skull Man's stage in ''MegaMan 4''.

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* Skull Man's stage in ''MegaMan ''Game/MegaMan 4''.
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* Many creation myths describe gods creating the world itself from the remains of colossal monsters killed in battle at the beginning of time. In NorseMythology, for instance, mountains were formed from the bones of Ymir, the first and biggest of the [[OurGiantsAreBigger frost giant]], and his skull became the sky itself.
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* ''{{Borderlands}}'': Planet Pandora is littered with them. Bandits have turned some into encampments, most notably Titan's End.
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* The first ''SpaceQuest'' had an area consisting of a large skeletal ridge in the middle of a desert planet. The player character can walk across the spinal column like a bridge, and as in ''AdventureIsland'', a part of the column was cracked. The player can only cross the cracked area twice before it breaks, at which point [[UnwinnableByDesign you had better hope you picked up everything you needed beforehand]]

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