What do we know about the creature whose skeleton we see in Star Wars?

What do we know about the creature whose skeleton we see in Star Wars? - Gray Animal Skull

In Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope, C-3PO passes by what looks like a dinosaur skeleton:

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What is this creature? Are they extinct? How did such a large animal manage to survive in a barren desert?



Best Answer

It is from a Greater Krayt dragon: http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Krayt_dragon

The krayt dragon was a large carnivorous reptile native to Tatooine.

They are extinct, Obi-Wan imitated the hunting cry of a Krayt dragon to scare away the sand people.

The greater krayt was a rarer, larger species of krayt dragon, known for its tremendous size and continual growth over time. Creatures of near legendary status, greater krayt dragons had ten legs, measured at least 100 meters from snout to tail tip and had the ability to move through or on Tatooine's desert sand

The artificial skeleton used for A New Hope was left in the Tunisian desert after filming and still lies there. During filming of Attack of the Clones, the site was visited by the crew and the skeleton was still found there.




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What is the skeleton in Star Wars?

I'll cut right to the chase: I'm about 95% sure that our museum's beloved 'Dippy' (formally known as the type, or name-bearing, fossilized skeleton of the dinosaur Diplodocus carnegii) makes an appearance of sorts in the original 1977 Star Wars (now known as Episode IV: A New Hope).

What is the skeleton on Tatooine in A New Hope?

The greater krayt dragon first appeared, albeit as a skeleton in the Tatooine desert, in Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope.

What did they find in the krayt dragon?

The krayt dragon is able to take out some of the hunting party, but when things look grim, Mando's heroics help slay the carnivore for good. At the end of the episode, the Tuskens skin the creature's carcass for meat, and one of them finds a shiny object hidden inside \u2014 a krayt dragon pearl, in fact.

Is the krayt dragon an Sarlacc?

There's no such thing as an abandoned sarlacc pit." An abandoned sarlacc pit on Tatooine was inhabited by a krayt dragon, which the Mandalorian Din Djarin speculated to have eaten the sarlacc.






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