Dinosaur SCPs

Dinosaur fossils have been found by humans for millennia, with early civilizations

believing them to be the bones of various great creatures, such as dragons or giants.

Dinosaurs have fascinated us for hundreds of years, however, and in many ways they exist as sort of a real-world anomaly compared to modern civilization.

These are creatures that lived millions upon millions of years ago, in a world that we would hardly recognize, and will likely never see one in the flesh.

Instead, most people's exposure to dinosaurs comes from fictional works,

films such as Jurassic Park and King Kong,

often featuring man being introduced to dinosaurs with disastrous results.

In this video, we're going to be looking at a handful of SCPs related to dinosaurs. And while they're all certainly odd, as SCPs always are, the dinosaurs themselves are not really the odd parts about them.

Let's start with perhaps the most classic dinosaur SCP on the wiki, SCP 250.

250 is the animate fossil skeleton of an allosaurus, consisting of 153 disarticulated bones

and 14 plaster and fiberglass replacements, held together and animated by an unknown force.

Study of this force is hindered by the dinosaur's aggressive behavior, which is well within the theoretical norms for an allosaurus.

It also emulates what are presumed to have been the standard daily activities of a living

allosaurus, including wandering its enclosure by day, entering a dormant state at night,

and attempting to kill and devour anything which it perceives as suitable prey, including

humans.

Its lack of organs does not seem to affect its behavior in any way, except that anything

it consumes will inevitably fall out of the gaps in its skull, neck, and rib cage, at which

point it ignores them.

It was first excavated as an 80% complete skeleton, showing no anomalous traits,

at which point it was transferred to a museum, assembled, and mounted.

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