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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* The Sacred Burial Space of ''[[Farscape (TV)|Farscape]]'' where [[Space Whale|Leviathans]] go to die.
* On the Science Channel's ''Dinosaur Revolution'', an aging bull ''Protoceratops'' lies down in a valley where the skulls of similar animals are scattered about. We don't actually see it keel over, but echoes of this trope convey the impression that the old bull's life has reached its end.
 
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* A non-elephant example. In the ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]] [[Eberron]]'' campaign setting, there is a dragon graveyard in the Talenta Plains. The local halfling tribes prevent outsiders from entering this hallowed place (violently). They themselves dare not enter it out of respect (and probably fear).
** In ''Dungeon'' #15, there is an adventure called ''The Elephant's Graveyard'', and it's [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin]]: an adventure romp through the jungle to this fabled place. You can walk away with a huge haul of ivory in the end.
* In ''[[Warhammer]]'' there is a legend of a dragon graveyard. Supposedly this is where all the major necromantic villains get their zombie dragons.
* ''[[Forgotten Realms]]'' has dragon graveyards. "Adventurers" sometimes try to get there since in addition to bones and teeth it's whatever treasure stuck in the scales, was swallowed or donated. Of course, those are also sacred places of the dragons' death god guarded by his priests, so...
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* Dragonbone Wastes (essentially, a dragon graveyard) are a major location in ''[[Dragon Age]]: Origins - Awakening'', as well as the ''Witch Hunt'' [[DLC]].
* [[Pokémon]] mentions a "Marowak Graveyard" in a few of its Pokédex entries.
* One of the levels of ''[[Bulletstorm (Video Game)|Bulletstorm]]'' takes place on a train that drives through a Hekaton graveyard.
* The Dragon's Graveyard of ''[[Dragon Quest VIII (Video Game)|Dragon Quest VIII]]'', while home to only one unremarkable species of dragon, is the site of an important sidequest (as well as a [[Peninsula of Power Leveling]]).
* ''[[Secret of Evermore]]'' has an early location called the Mammoth Graveyard. Since the deaths of the gigantic beasts, swarms of Vipers have taken it over.
* In the ''[[The Lion King (Video Game)|Lion King]]'' [[Licensed Game]], the Elephant Graveyard is the third level.
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Jonny Quest: The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest (Animation)|The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest]]'' episode "Ndovu's Last Journey". The elephant Ndovu tries to reach one of these so he can die, with the Quest team fending off poachers trying to stop him.
* ''[[Re Boot]]'' features a [[Cyberspace|Web]] [[Space Whale|Creatures]] graveyard, which the crew of the Saucy Mare use to skin their ship with web creatures shells and make it web-proof.
* An episode of ''[[Seabert]]'' featured an elephant graveyard.
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