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* In ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'', Gert has a pet raptor named Old Lace.
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* Robert Mash's ''How to Keep Dinosaurs'' is a full book on dinosaur care with elaborate CG enhanced photo illustrations featuring dinosaurs in the modern world. The book covers dinosaurs as house pets, guard animals, livestock, and as zoo animals with a sense of BlackComedy throughout.
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* In ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'' , Aptonoth (large herbivorous Monsters with traits from different kinds of dinosaurs) are sometimes used as working animals by NPCs.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Pokemon}}'': Any dinosaur-like Pokémon under the control of the player or an NPC counts.
* ''VideoGame/{{Pokemon}}'': Any dinosaur-like Pokémon under the control of the player or an NPC counts.
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* In ''Disney/MeetTheRobinsons'', the Robinson family have a pet T. rex. [[AllAnimalsAreDogs He acts like a dog.]]
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* Complex example in ''Film/JurassicWorld''. Owen is on very familiar terms with a number of ''Velociraptors'', and has trained them to the point that he can order them to back off if they're about to attack someone. However, director Colin Trevorrow has made clear that they are still dangerous predators who will bite your head off if you make the wrong move. They're less like the dinosaur equivalent of dogs and more like tamed lions.
* Complex example in ''Film/JurassicWorld''. Owen is on very familiar terms with a number of ''Velociraptors'', and has trained them to the point that he can order them to back off if they're about to attack someone. However, director Colin Trevorrow has made clear that they are still dangerous predators who will bite your head off if you make the wrong move. They're less like the dinosaur equivalent of dogs and more like tamed lions.
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* As with the source, this is invoked in ''Pinball/TheFlintstones,'' complete with a ball-spitting Bronto Crane.
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* In ''WebComic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' the Empire of Blood uses a lot of dinosaurs in their military and in their gladiator arenas.
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* In the ''TinyToonAdventures'' episode, "Rock N' Roar", Buster tried to get his soccer ball back when it fell down a hole, but instead, he picked up an egg that hatched into a dinosaur. He tries keeping him as a pet, naming him "Rover", and even [[Main/VegetarianCarnivore raising him to be a vegetarian]], but Rover's massive size made a mess of Acme Acres and Monty tried to trap him. At the end, Buster had to return Rover to the cave where he found his egg.
* On the HannaBarbera SaturdayMorningCartoon ''Mighty Mightor'', Sheera has a pet mammoth calf named Bollo. Little Rok also has a pet dodo bird, although that's a borderline example, since the dodo went extinct relatively recently. Plus, the villains of the show regularly used dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals as mounts and attack animals.
* On the HannaBarbera SaturdayMorningCartoon ''Mighty Mightor'', Sheera has a pet mammoth calf named Bollo. Little Rok also has a pet dodo bird, although that's a borderline example, since the dodo went extinct relatively recently. Plus, the villains of the show regularly used dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals as mounts and attack animals.
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* In ''TabletopGame/MyriadSong'' many planets have dinosaurs for some reason, Troodons are a playable race, the descriptions for some species mention that they're often domesticated.
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* In ''[[http://www.rhjunior.com/comics/the-fellowship-of-heroes/ The Fellowship of Heroes]]'' a supervillain overran the southwest states with dinosaurs, many states were evacuated, Texas decided to domesticate them. It's first mentioned when Crusader wrangles up a baby brontosaur that escaped from a traveling rodeo.
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* The very first cartoon character of all time, ''WesternAnimation/GertieTheDinosaur'', was a saurodod who did tricks on command, and would metatextually interact with live actors. If you're having trouble picturing this, imagine the "Hello John" scene from ''Film/JurassicPark'', which was a ShoutOut to this.
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* The very first cartoon character of all time, ''WesternAnimation/GertieTheDinosaur'', was a saurodod sauropod who did tricks on command, and would metatextually interact with live actors. If you're having trouble picturing this, imagine the "Hello John" scene from ''Film/JurassicPark'', which was a ShoutOut to this.
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** Images of Jesus riding a dinosaur or of Bible-era farmers riding triceratops are often used to advertise, or satirize, creationism.
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* The spin-off ''[[Franchise/JurassicPark Jurassic Park]]'' game ''[[JurassicParkOperationGenesis Operation Genesis]]'' allows you to build and run your own dinosaur park similar to that of the book and movie, but hopefully without the whole [[BuffySpeak breaking-out-and-eating-people thing]].
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* In Creator/GeraldDurrell's children's book ''Literature/TheFantasticDinosaurAdventure'' (the sequel to ''Literature/TheFantasticFlyingJourney''), the Dollybut siblings and their great-uncle Lancelot travel back in time to the age of dinosaurs. By the end of the story, they adopt two juvenile animals: a female diplodocus and a male pterosaur.
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* ''Literature/TheStoneDanceOfTheChameleon'' takes place in a world inhabited by a lot of prehistoric animals. The local population has domesticated ceratopsids called huimur, small versions of which serve as pack animals and giant versions of which are ridden to war like war elephants, and theropods called aquars, which are [[HorseOfADifferentColor ridden like horses]].
* ''Literature/TheStoneDanceOfTheChameleon'' takes place in a world inhabited by a lot of prehistoric animals. The local population has domesticated ceratopsids called huimur, small versions of which serve as pack animals and giant versions of which are ridden to war like war elephants, and theropods called aquars, which are [[HorseOfADifferentColor ridden like horses]].
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* The [[Franchise/SuperMarioBrothers Mario]] franchise gives us Yoshi, who is in fact a dinosaur (although he doesn't exactly look like one).
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* In''WesternAnimation/DuckTales'', Bubba the Caveduck has a pet triceratops named Tootsie.
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Most fiction detailing interaction between humans and dinosaurs portrays the relationship as purely antagonistic; dinos want to eat us, and we want to not get eaten. But that's not the extent of our interaction with most animals we actually deal with, is it?
This trope is another way of imagining what that interaction might look like. What if we found a use for dinosaurs? Since EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs, logically, a world where dinosaurs are kept as pets, mounts, or beasts of burden is better than our own world.
Despite the name of this trope, it can also apply to any prehistoric animal.
Also see HorseOfADifferentColor and CoolPet, as well as AllAnimalsAreDogs for what usually happens with such creatures, and FluffyTamer for the sort of human character who keeps these things around. Typically occurs in a OneMillionBC setting, a LostWorld, in MedievalPrehistory, or as a result of TimeTravel. A pretty severe inversion of the PrehistoricMonster trope, too, since it relies on dinosaurs being just another class of animals.
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* The earlier chapters of ''Manga/BlackCat'' has Madam Freesia, an aristocrat who really likes to collect rare objects, including a pet T. rex named Flora, who escapes and causes much destruction.
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* In ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'', Gert has a pet raptor named Old Lace.
* ''[[ComicBook/TwoThousandAD 2000 A.D.]]'' ran with this idea by having the Cursed Earth - the post-apocalyptic wasteland between the Mega Cities of North America - infested with reborn dinosaurs. A long-running strip followed a pioneer "wagon train" leaving ComicBook/JudgeDredd's Mega-City One to search out an unspoilt corner of the continent in which to build a better life; they encountered both raptor packs, some of which had been "tamed" by sub-human mutant tribes as riding beasts, and by others as beasts of burden.
** Elsewhere in ''2000 AD'', tyrannosaurs repeatedly turn on humans who try to tame them. A story arc revolved around a bull tyrannosaur with a certain sentience, who absolutely hated the humans who'd treated him sadistically.
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* In ''Disney/MeetTheRobinsons'', the Robinson family have a pet T. rex. [[AllAnimalsAreDogs He acts like a dog.]]
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* ''Film/TheValleyOfGwangi''. An old west rodeo makes a successful sideshow out of an eohippus, and then they find an allosaurus and try to put him in the circus. Naturally, he escapes and eats a lot of people.
* The ''Film/{{Prehysteria}}'' series of kids' movies involve pet dinosaurs.
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* ''Literature/JurassicPark'' is about a failed attempt at creating a dinosaur zoo. Certain spin-off video games let you succeed, though, by focusing on the upkeep of such a park if it really worked.
** In the book (although dropped from the film), one of [=inGen=]'s long-term plans was to breed small dinosaurs for children to keep as pets, and make it so that they could only survive off of food produced by [=inGen=], giving them a nice monopoly on them.
* ''Literature/{{Dinotopia}}'' is a borderline example, since all the dinosaurs could talk and were basically treated like people.
* In ''Literature/MoreInformationThanYouRequire'', the "pseudosaur" is listed as one of the hideous steeds of the molemen. Actually a subversion, because although the mole-men think that pseudosaurs are dinosaurs, they're actually [[{{Slurpasaur}} just oversized iguanas.]]
* Creator/SMStirling's ''[[Literature/TheLordsOfCreation The Sky People]]'' has the Earth outpost tame dinosaurs via neural implant.
* Oliver Butterworth's ''The Enormous Egg''. [[ArtisticLicenseBiology A triceratops is hatched from a giant hen's egg]] and becomes the pet of a boy named Nate Twitchell, who names it "Uncle Beazley".
* In Creator/GeraldDurrell's children's book ''Literature/TheFantasticDinosaurAdventure'' (the sequel to ''Literature/TheFantasticFlyingJourney''), the Dollybut siblings and their great-uncle Lancelot travel back in time to the age of dinosaurs. By the end of the story, they adopt two juvenile animals: a female diplodocus and a male pterosaur.
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* ''Series/PrehistoricPark'' is about a successful attempt at creating a dinosaur zoo. It's basically just a documentary series about the management of a zoo, but the zoo happens to be for dinosaurs.
* On ''Series/{{Primeval}}'', Abbey kept a Coelurosauravus as a pet. His name was Rex.
* The ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "Dinosaurs On A Spaceship" has the Doctor taming a triceratops and then riding it around the ship.
** Spinoff series ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' gives the main protagonists a pet pteranodon.
* Inverted on ''Series/{{Dinosaurs}}'', where the ridiculously-suburbanized dinosaurs keep pet humans.
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* In ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'', the Lizardmen ride various distinctly dinosaurian steeds into war. One such creature, the therapod-like Cold One, is also available to the Dark Elves. It's a bit of a stretch to call Cold Ones domesticated, though, as the rider needs to cover themselves in an unguent that masks their scent so the beasts won't attack them.
** ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFortyThousand'''s Eldar and Dark Eldar have access to Cold One-like steeds, and the Tau Empire's Great Knarloc is very much like a Tyrannosaurus rex, but they mount a big gun on its back.
* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''
** In ''TabletopGame/{{Eberron}}'', the halflings of the Talenta Plains are basically a [[FantasyCounterpartCulture Central Asian nomadic tribe]] of dinosaur riders. They ride dromaeosaurids and herd leaellynasaura.
** The standard rules also make this definitely possible, with druids and rangers given access to various prehistoric animals as their companions. Additionally, the 3.5 supplements ''Frostburn'' and ''Sandstorm'' suggest that paladins in arctic or desert settings might use megaloceras and diprotodons, respectively, as mounts, and the book ''Arms and Equipment Guide'' offers the "axebeak" (a distinctly phorusrhacid bird) as a steed.
** Module WG6, ''Isle of the Ape''. One of the groups of cavemen had phorusrhacids that they used as "hounds" to hunt down prey.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' also gives druids access to dinosaurs and pterosaurs as companions, and the Kelids are a steppe nomad culture who ride domesticated mammoths.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Ironclaw}}'' and ''Jadeclaw'' have dinosaurs substitute for cows and horses. The text refers to them as "lizards," but the illustrations clearly show dinosaurs.
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* In ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'', giants keep woolly mammoths for their milk and hides.
* The ''VideoGame/ZooTycoon'' expansion pack ''Dino Digs'' basically let you create a Jurassic Park of your own.
* In ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline'', the Voth, a race of RubberForeheadAliens descended from Earth dinosaurs (from [[Series/StarTrekVoyager VOY: "Distant Origin"]]), use [[MemeticMutation dinosaurs with freaking laser beams]] as pack animals and, for lack of a better term, living armored vehicles.
* In ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'', Ayla's caveman tribe keep (four-legged) pterosaurs as flying mounts while the [[TheReptilians Reptites]] keep Tyrannosaurs.
* In ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', trolls often ride giant raptor-like creatures, while the tauren (minotaur people) typically ride the brontotherium-like kodo.
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* In ''WebComic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' the Empire of Blood uses a lot of dinosaurs in their military and in their gladiator arenas.
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* The very first cartoon character of all time, ''WesternAnimation/GertieTheDinosaur'', was a saurodod who did tricks on command, and would metatextually interact with live actors. If you're having trouble picturing this, imagine the "Hello John" scene from ''Film/JurassicPark'', which was a ShoutOut to this.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'', famously. The prehistoric humans kept dinosaurs as pets and used them as industrial machines (e.g. a brontosaurus was used as a steam shovel).
* ''WesternAnimation/DinoRiders'', which was about [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin guys who ride dinosaurs]].
* In the ''WesternAnimation/PorkyPig'' short "Prehistoric Porky" cave-Porky has a pet brontosaurus named Rover.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "I Dated a Robot", Fry fulfills one of his dreams: riding a T. rex in the Jurassic Kiddie Park.
* {{Conversed}} in ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' when Arthur, Buster, and the Brain are writing a fanfic sequel to RobinHood. Buster wants to write a scene where pirates ride an ''Apatosaurus'' into town and crush buildings. Brain points out that "dinosaurs and pirates never coexisted."
* ''WesternAnimation/DinoBoy''. The title character had a baby brontosaurus named "Bronty" as a pet. The villains in various episodes sometimes had dinosaurs as beasts of burden, mounts, attack animals and so on.
* In the ''TinyToonAdventures'' episode, "Rock N' Roar", Buster tried to get his soccer ball back when it fell down a hole, but instead, he picked up an egg that hatched into a dinosaur. He tries keeping him as a pet, naming him "Rover", and even raising him to be a vegetarian, but Rover's massive size made a mess of Acme Acres and Monty tried to trap him. At the end, Buster had to return Rover to the cave where he found his egg.
* On the HannaBarbera SaturdayMorningCartoon ''Mighty Mightor'', Sheera has a pet mammoth calf named Bollo. Little Rok also has a pet dodo bird, although that's a borderline example, since the dodo went extinct relatively recently. Plus, the villains of the show regularly used dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals as mounts and attack animals.
* In''WesternAnimation/DuckTales'', Bubba the Caveduck has a pet triceratops named Tootsie.
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* There's a popular photoshopped image floating around the internet of Napoleon Bonaparte riding on an allosaur.
** Images of Jesus riding a dinosaur or of Bible-era farmers riding triceratops are often used to advertise, or satirize, creationism.
This trope is another way of imagining what that interaction might look like. What if we found a use for dinosaurs? Since EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs, logically, a world where dinosaurs are kept as pets, mounts, or beasts of burden is better than our own world.
Despite the name of this trope, it can also apply to any prehistoric animal.
Also see HorseOfADifferentColor and CoolPet, as well as AllAnimalsAreDogs for what usually happens with such creatures, and FluffyTamer for the sort of human character who keeps these things around. Typically occurs in a OneMillionBC setting, a LostWorld, in MedievalPrehistory, or as a result of TimeTravel. A pretty severe inversion of the PrehistoricMonster trope, too, since it relies on dinosaurs being just another class of animals.
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* The earlier chapters of ''Manga/BlackCat'' has Madam Freesia, an aristocrat who really likes to collect rare objects, including a pet T. rex named Flora, who escapes and causes much destruction.
[[AC:Comics]]
* In ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'', Gert has a pet raptor named Old Lace.
* ''[[ComicBook/TwoThousandAD 2000 A.D.]]'' ran with this idea by having the Cursed Earth - the post-apocalyptic wasteland between the Mega Cities of North America - infested with reborn dinosaurs. A long-running strip followed a pioneer "wagon train" leaving ComicBook/JudgeDredd's Mega-City One to search out an unspoilt corner of the continent in which to build a better life; they encountered both raptor packs, some of which had been "tamed" by sub-human mutant tribes as riding beasts, and by others as beasts of burden.
** Elsewhere in ''2000 AD'', tyrannosaurs repeatedly turn on humans who try to tame them. A story arc revolved around a bull tyrannosaur with a certain sentience, who absolutely hated the humans who'd treated him sadistically.
[[AC:Films - Animated]]
* In ''Disney/MeetTheRobinsons'', the Robinson family have a pet T. rex. [[AllAnimalsAreDogs He acts like a dog.]]
[[AC:Films - Live Action]]
* ''Film/TheValleyOfGwangi''. An old west rodeo makes a successful sideshow out of an eohippus, and then they find an allosaurus and try to put him in the circus. Naturally, he escapes and eats a lot of people.
* The ''Film/{{Prehysteria}}'' series of kids' movies involve pet dinosaurs.
[[AC:Literature]]
* ''Literature/JurassicPark'' is about a failed attempt at creating a dinosaur zoo. Certain spin-off video games let you succeed, though, by focusing on the upkeep of such a park if it really worked.
** In the book (although dropped from the film), one of [=inGen=]'s long-term plans was to breed small dinosaurs for children to keep as pets, and make it so that they could only survive off of food produced by [=inGen=], giving them a nice monopoly on them.
* ''Literature/{{Dinotopia}}'' is a borderline example, since all the dinosaurs could talk and were basically treated like people.
* In ''Literature/MoreInformationThanYouRequire'', the "pseudosaur" is listed as one of the hideous steeds of the molemen. Actually a subversion, because although the mole-men think that pseudosaurs are dinosaurs, they're actually [[{{Slurpasaur}} just oversized iguanas.]]
* Creator/SMStirling's ''[[Literature/TheLordsOfCreation The Sky People]]'' has the Earth outpost tame dinosaurs via neural implant.
* Oliver Butterworth's ''The Enormous Egg''. [[ArtisticLicenseBiology A triceratops is hatched from a giant hen's egg]] and becomes the pet of a boy named Nate Twitchell, who names it "Uncle Beazley".
* In Creator/GeraldDurrell's children's book ''Literature/TheFantasticDinosaurAdventure'' (the sequel to ''Literature/TheFantasticFlyingJourney''), the Dollybut siblings and their great-uncle Lancelot travel back in time to the age of dinosaurs. By the end of the story, they adopt two juvenile animals: a female diplodocus and a male pterosaur.
[[AC:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/PrehistoricPark'' is about a successful attempt at creating a dinosaur zoo. It's basically just a documentary series about the management of a zoo, but the zoo happens to be for dinosaurs.
* On ''Series/{{Primeval}}'', Abbey kept a Coelurosauravus as a pet. His name was Rex.
* The ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "Dinosaurs On A Spaceship" has the Doctor taming a triceratops and then riding it around the ship.
** Spinoff series ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' gives the main protagonists a pet pteranodon.
* Inverted on ''Series/{{Dinosaurs}}'', where the ridiculously-suburbanized dinosaurs keep pet humans.
[[AC:Tabletop Games]]
* In ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'', the Lizardmen ride various distinctly dinosaurian steeds into war. One such creature, the therapod-like Cold One, is also available to the Dark Elves. It's a bit of a stretch to call Cold Ones domesticated, though, as the rider needs to cover themselves in an unguent that masks their scent so the beasts won't attack them.
** ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFortyThousand'''s Eldar and Dark Eldar have access to Cold One-like steeds, and the Tau Empire's Great Knarloc is very much like a Tyrannosaurus rex, but they mount a big gun on its back.
* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''
** In ''TabletopGame/{{Eberron}}'', the halflings of the Talenta Plains are basically a [[FantasyCounterpartCulture Central Asian nomadic tribe]] of dinosaur riders. They ride dromaeosaurids and herd leaellynasaura.
** The standard rules also make this definitely possible, with druids and rangers given access to various prehistoric animals as their companions. Additionally, the 3.5 supplements ''Frostburn'' and ''Sandstorm'' suggest that paladins in arctic or desert settings might use megaloceras and diprotodons, respectively, as mounts, and the book ''Arms and Equipment Guide'' offers the "axebeak" (a distinctly phorusrhacid bird) as a steed.
** Module WG6, ''Isle of the Ape''. One of the groups of cavemen had phorusrhacids that they used as "hounds" to hunt down prey.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' also gives druids access to dinosaurs and pterosaurs as companions, and the Kelids are a steppe nomad culture who ride domesticated mammoths.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Ironclaw}}'' and ''Jadeclaw'' have dinosaurs substitute for cows and horses. The text refers to them as "lizards," but the illustrations clearly show dinosaurs.
[[AC:Video Games]]
* In ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'', giants keep woolly mammoths for their milk and hides.
* The ''VideoGame/ZooTycoon'' expansion pack ''Dino Digs'' basically let you create a Jurassic Park of your own.
* In ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline'', the Voth, a race of RubberForeheadAliens descended from Earth dinosaurs (from [[Series/StarTrekVoyager VOY: "Distant Origin"]]), use [[MemeticMutation dinosaurs with freaking laser beams]] as pack animals and, for lack of a better term, living armored vehicles.
* In ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'', Ayla's caveman tribe keep (four-legged) pterosaurs as flying mounts while the [[TheReptilians Reptites]] keep Tyrannosaurs.
* In ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', trolls often ride giant raptor-like creatures, while the tauren (minotaur people) typically ride the brontotherium-like kodo.
[[AC:Web Comics]]
* In ''WebComic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' the Empire of Blood uses a lot of dinosaurs in their military and in their gladiator arenas.
[[AC:Western Animation]]
* The very first cartoon character of all time, ''WesternAnimation/GertieTheDinosaur'', was a saurodod who did tricks on command, and would metatextually interact with live actors. If you're having trouble picturing this, imagine the "Hello John" scene from ''Film/JurassicPark'', which was a ShoutOut to this.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'', famously. The prehistoric humans kept dinosaurs as pets and used them as industrial machines (e.g. a brontosaurus was used as a steam shovel).
* ''WesternAnimation/DinoRiders'', which was about [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin guys who ride dinosaurs]].
* In the ''WesternAnimation/PorkyPig'' short "Prehistoric Porky" cave-Porky has a pet brontosaurus named Rover.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "I Dated a Robot", Fry fulfills one of his dreams: riding a T. rex in the Jurassic Kiddie Park.
* {{Conversed}} in ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' when Arthur, Buster, and the Brain are writing a fanfic sequel to RobinHood. Buster wants to write a scene where pirates ride an ''Apatosaurus'' into town and crush buildings. Brain points out that "dinosaurs and pirates never coexisted."
* ''WesternAnimation/DinoBoy''. The title character had a baby brontosaurus named "Bronty" as a pet. The villains in various episodes sometimes had dinosaurs as beasts of burden, mounts, attack animals and so on.
* In the ''TinyToonAdventures'' episode, "Rock N' Roar", Buster tried to get his soccer ball back when it fell down a hole, but instead, he picked up an egg that hatched into a dinosaur. He tries keeping him as a pet, naming him "Rover", and even raising him to be a vegetarian, but Rover's massive size made a mess of Acme Acres and Monty tried to trap him. At the end, Buster had to return Rover to the cave where he found his egg.
* On the HannaBarbera SaturdayMorningCartoon ''Mighty Mightor'', Sheera has a pet mammoth calf named Bollo. Little Rok also has a pet dodo bird, although that's a borderline example, since the dodo went extinct relatively recently. Plus, the villains of the show regularly used dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals as mounts and attack animals.
* In''WesternAnimation/DuckTales'', Bubba the Caveduck has a pet triceratops named Tootsie.
[[AC:Other]]
* There's a popular photoshopped image floating around the internet of Napoleon Bonaparte riding on an allosaur.
** Images of Jesus riding a dinosaur or of Bible-era farmers riding triceratops are often used to advertise, or satirize, creationism.
