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Uh-oh. ''There's a dog loose at the natural history museum!'' The museum is full of priceless fossilized [[Everything's Better Withwith Dinosaurs|dinosaur]] skeletons, worth millions upon millions of dollars. And we all know what dogs [[Stock Animal Diet|like to munch on]], don't we? Prepare to see the little pooch walk out the door with a jumbo-sized femur in his mouth, and to hear the sound of [[Why We Can't Have Nice Things|many bones collapsing into a pile]] in the background.
 
[[Rule of Funny|Of course]], [[Did Not Do the Research|this would not actually happen in]] [[Real Life]]. Fossil bones have been [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|fossilized]] over all the millions of years they have spent lying around underground, and would not attract a dog's attention any more than a rock would. In any case, most museums do not take the risk of setting the priceless skeletons out in the open where they could be damaged; those are actually plaster recreations directly modeled after the authentic bones. Not to mention, they're also either in glass cases or mounted on metal frames so they ''can't'' fall apart.
 
Often spotted in [[Comedy Tropes|comedies]] and [[Animation Tropes|cartoons]]. Has something to do with the vague association most people have between dinosaurs and bones; to the point that many museum visitors believe that ''[[Mishmash Museum|every]]'' [[Somewhere a Paleontologist Is Crying|mounted skeleton in a museum is some kind of dinosaur]].
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== [[Comics]] ==
* Happened in [[Tintin (Comic Book)|King Ottokar's Sceptre]].
* [[Superman|Krypto the Superdog]] did this at least once, only to discover that yes, fossilized bones taste awful. So he goes back to the time of living dinosaurs...
* ''[[Liberty Meadows]]'' Ralph has been digging for dinosaur bones all day with no luck and leaves his spot. Oscar the Weiner dog dives down the hole and soon emerges with a giant femur in his mouth.
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== [[Film]] ==
* [[Played for Laughs]] and inverted in ''[[Night Atat the Museum]]''. due to a magical artifact, the ''T. rex'' skeleton comes to life at night, and [[All Animals Are Dogs|has the personality of a dog]].
* The movie ''[[Bringing Up Baby]]'', which might be the trope originator. A dog steals and buries the last dinosaur bone that a paleontologist needs to complete a brontosaurus apatosaurus skeleton at his museum.
* In ''[[The Adventures of Tintin]]'', while Tintin, Haddock and Snowy are lost in the desert, Snowy (in the background) finds a dinosaur bone.
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== [[Toys]] ==
* An especially strange variation on this trope can be found, of all places, on one of the G1 [[My Little Pony]] figures. [http://www.flickr.com/photos/babbletrish/3396215502/ Cutesaurus] ([[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made Onon Drugs?|ya rly]]) is a brachiosaurus "Pony Friend". Her symbols are dog bones. They were probably meant to be dinosaur bones but they look an ''awful'' lot like doggy treats.
 
== Video Games ==
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* In the episode of ''[[Rugrats]]'' where they go to the natural history museum, the "present" they bring home for Spike is a dinosaur toe bone.
* A ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' cartoon had a museum curator scolding his dog for taking a dinosaur bone and ordered him to get it back. The dog spends the rest of the cartoon trying to retrieve the bone from a bulldog, only to find out at the end that his master had the bone in question in his pocket the whole time.
* ''[[Tom and Jerry (Animation)|The Tom and Jerry Show]]'' (1975) episode "No Bones About It". A dinosaur's toe bone is missing from the museum in which Tom and Jerry work; they see Spike carrying what they think is the missing bone, so they try to get it away from him.
* ''[[A Pup Named Scooby Doo]]'' featured this once.
** Likely a call back to the use of the gag in the first episode of ''[[Scooby Doo Where Are You]] ?''
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* ''[[Clifford the Big Red Dog]]'' had found a dinosaur bone.
* Chu-Chu attempts to make a meal out of a fallen dinosaur statue in episode one of ''[[The Amazing Chan and The Chan Clan]]''.
* In [[Darkwing Duck (Animationanimation)|Darkwing Duck]], one of Negaducks attempts to earn the spot of public enemy #1 was to introduce some vicious dogs to a museum's dinosaur bones.
 
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