Skull Island is a fictional island first appearing in the 1933 film King Kong and later appearing in its sequels and in the two remakes. Skull Island may refer to: Skull Islands in fiction Skull Island Marine State Park in Washington State Skull Island in the Northern Territory of Australia Category: ... FicTioNaL is a Gaming Legend. ... See also: 1932 in film 1933 1934 in film 1930s in film years in film film // Events British Film Institute founded. ... This is about the original movie and novel. ...

Appearance in the 1933 film

Denham's map to Skull Island, as seen in the original 1933 King Kong

In King Kong, Skull Island is located at approximately 90 degrees East and 2 degrees South - somewhere off the coast of Sumatra. There is a distinctive rocky knoll in the center of the island which is shaped like a human skull, hence its foreboding name. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... This is about the original movie and novel. ... This is about the original movie and novel. ... Sumatra (also spelled Sumatera) is the sixth largest island in the world (approximately 470,000 km²) and is the largest island entirely in Indonesia (two larger islands, Borneo and New Guinea, are partially in Indonesia). ... Knoll Pharmaceuticals had been taken over by Abbott Laboratories Abbott_Laboratories on 30th June 2002, atleast in India and in most parts of Asia. ...

At first, it is thought of as deserted, but upon further examination by the protagonists of the picture, it is filled to the brim with superstitious natives, prehistoric creatures of all sorts, and one extremely large gorilla, known by those on the island as "Kong". Prehistoric life is a term used to refer to diverse organisms that inhabited Earth from the origin of life about 3. ... Type species Troglodytes gorilla Savage, 1847 distribution of Gorilla Species Gorilla gorilla Gorilla beringei The gorilla, the largest of the living primates, is a ground-dwelling omnivore that inhabits the forests of Africa. ... King Kong in the 1933 film. ...

The native people of Skull Island appear to be of West African (or perhaps Papuan) descent. Their barbaric portrayal in the film has provoked complaints and controversy ever since the movie's release. In the sequel film, Son of Kong, we last see Skull Island as it sinks into the sea. Kong's son drowns while holding Carl Denham above the water. Denham survives unscathed. West African refers to: West Africa An airline: West African Airlines [1] This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Papua is: Another name for New Guinea Papua (Australian territory): A former Australian territory comprising the southeastern quarter of the island of New Guinea, now the southern part of Papua New Guinea Papua (Indonesian province): An Indonesian province comprising the western half of the island of New Guinea Related Words... The Son of Kong is the sequel to the successful film King Kong. ... Carl Denham (born 1896 in New York City died in 1957 in California) is a fictional film director in the films King Kong and Son of Kong (both released in 1933), as well as in the 2005 remake of King Kong, and a 2004 illustrated-novel titled Kong: King of...

Skull Island is never referred to by name on film. In the original film, only Skull Mountain is named, while in the sequel Son of Kong, its simply referred to as "Kong's Island". But in the novelization and screenplays the island is indeed called Skull Island. The Son of Kong is the sequel to the successful film King Kong. ...

Kong: King of Skull Island, a 2004 sequel-novel which ignores Son of Kong, makes an attempt to reveal the history of Skull Island before the events of the 1933 film's story.

Appearance in the 1976 remake

Though not called by name in the film (it is simply referred to as the Beach of the Skull by Jack Prescott), and lacking the distinctive Skull outcropping, the island featured in the 1976 remake is referenced as Skull Island within the film's soundtrack. This incarnation is located in the Pacific and is discovered by an oil drilling expedition. As in the original, the native people appear to be of West African descent. In this films sequel King Kong Lives (1986), the island is mistakenly referred to by Hank Mitchell as Kong Island. King Kong (also known as King Kong: The Legend Reborn) is a 1976 American motion picture produced by Dino de Laurentiis and directed by John Guillermin. ... King Kong Lives is sequel to 1976 version of King Kong. ...

Appearance in the 2005 remake

Denham's map to Skull Island, as seen in King Kong (2005).

The Skull Island of 2005's King Kong is very similar to that of the 1933 film. It is once again a long-forgotten place, noted as being "far west of Sumatra", until a mysterious map leads a group of adventurers to it. It appears to be in a region that affects magnets, and is frequently shrouded in fog. The island is slowly sinking beneath the sea. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 453 pixel Image in higher resolution (870 × 493 pixel, file size: 83 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Skull Island map - a screenshot from King Kong (2005) Ann Darrow is an unemployed Vaudeville actress. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 453 pixel Image in higher resolution (870 × 493 pixel, file size: 83 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Skull Island map - a screenshot from King Kong (2005) Ann Darrow is an unemployed Vaudeville actress. ... King Kong is a 2005 remake of the 1933 King Kong film about a fictional giant ape called Kong. ... Sumatra (also spelled Sumatera) is the sixth largest island in the world (approximately 470,000 km²) and is the largest island entirely in Indonesia (two larger islands, Borneo and New Guinea, are partially in Indonesia). ...

The island is shaped like a large hand with long, skeletal fingers. It is surrounded by carved stone reefs, made to resemble faces crying out in anger and pain, and is criss-crossed by an enormous stone wall and covered with jungle-swallowed ruins that are countless generations old, which are all that remain of an unknown, ancient human civilization that somehow once existed and thrived on Skull Island.

It is filled with all manner of monstrous creatures, but these beings have evolved past their primitive ancestors. The animals there have turned into violent killing machines - the harsh environment of Skull Island changing their evolutionary outcome. Aside from dinosaurs, the island is also home to insectoid and worm-like creatures. There are strange creatures like Arachno-Claw, Scorpio-Pede, and Celocimex. See the main link above for details. Orders Saurischia    Sauropodomorpha    Theropoda Ornithischia Dinosaurs are giant reptiles that dominated the terrestrial ecosystem for most of their 165-million year existence. ... Orders Subclass Apterygota Archaeognatha (bristletails) Thysanura (silverfish) Subclass Pterygota Infraclass Paleoptera (Probably paraphyletic) Ephemeroptera (mayflies) Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) Infraclass Neoptera Superorder Exopterygota Grylloblattodea (ice-crawlers) Mantophasmatodea (gladiators) Plecoptera (stoneflies) Embioptera (webspinners) Zoraptera (angel insects) Dermaptera (earwigs) Orthoptera (grasshoppers, etc) Phasmatodea (stick insects) Blattodea (cockroaches) Isoptera (termites) Mantodea (mantids) Psocoptera... Arachno-Claw, correctly called Arachnocidis, (Spider-Claw) are fictional, oversized arthropods from the 2005 movie King Kong. ...

The island can be broken down into several smaller ecosystems, all shifting and changing as the animals fight amongst each other. These ecosystems are the Skull Island Coastal Region and the Village, the Skull Island Lowlands, the Skull Island Swamp and River System, the Skull Island Jungle, the Skull Island Chasms and the Skull Island Uplands. Each has its own unique collection of species that continuously fight with each other.

The current native people of this Skull Island appear to be of a mixed Melanesian descent, although director Peter Jackson has stated that they are supposed to look like no other people on Earth. They were portrayed by a number of different Pacific Island people, who were sprayed with a brown paint to make all of their skin tones coincide. Many wear pieces of bone in some form (such as a necklace) and some even have smaller pieces of bone embedded in their flesh, such as through the nose. Many also have bright red eyes or even what appears to be eyes with no pupils that are just white, presumably a derived trait. Melanesia (from Greek black islands) is a region extending from the west Pacific to the Arafura Sea, north and north-east of Australia. ... For other persons named Peter Jackson, see Peter Jackson (disambiguation). ... This article is about Earth as a planet. ... The Pacific Ocean has an estimated 20,000 to 30,000 islands; the exact number is unknown. ...

The island is further explored in the later series of expeditions called Project Legacy. In 1948, the island sinks and is forever lost due to a huge earthquake, measuring 9.2 on the Richter Scale, with all of its unique animals and strange people. Project Legacy was a fictional series of expeditions guided by movie producer Carl Denham to explore the natural flora and fauna of Skull Island, the famed home of the giant ape, King Kong. ... The Richter magnitude test scale (or more correctly local magnitude ML scale) assigns a single number to quantify the size of an earthquake. ...

The Weta Workshop book The World of Kong documents many of the inhabitants, locations and details of Skull island, as of King Kong (2005 film). The World Of Kong: A Natural History Of Skull Island is a fictional 2005 encyclopedic book which was made for the release of Peter Jacksons King Kong. ... King Kong is a 2005 remake of the 1933 King Kong film about a fictional giant ape called Kong. ...

Skull Island inhabitants

King Kong and Son of Kong

• A Stegosaurus-like creature: appears in a sequence in which it is disturbed by Carl Denham's crew. Like an angry rhinoceros, it charges the men and they fell it with a gas-bomb. As they walk by, it starts to get up again and is shot. Orville Goldner, who worked on the film, described the film's stegosaur as a combination of two genera: Stegosaurus ungulatus and the less well-known Kentrosaurus.^[1]
• A long-necked Apatosaurus: The dinosaur is disturbed by the rescue party's raft as it crosses a swamp and capsizes it, attacking the men in the water. Several of them are chased onto land, and one fellow is cornered while climbing a tree and mauled to death by the animal. A common misconception is that the sauropod actually eats the sailor, but it is stated in the script that the dinosaur kills and then abandons the body of a sailor identified as "Tim." The creature reappears in Son of Kong, crying out as the island is sinking.
• A large 2-legged lizard-like creature: This creature climbs up a vine from the crevasse to attack Jack Driscoll. It falls back into the pit when Jack cuts the vine it is climbing. Other than the two limbs, the other distinct feature of this creature is the iguana-like ridge of spikes down its back. Orville Goldner said it was loosely based on the features of the Desmatosuchus.^[1]
• A large theropod which has been identified as both Tyrannosaurus and Allosaurus: The dinosaur was modeled after Charles R. Knight's depiction of a Tyrannosaurus.^[1] However, it possesses three fingers per hand, unlike Tyrannosaurus which had only two (it should be noted that the number of fingers in Tyrannosaurus was disputed at the time, as a complete manus would not be uncovered until the mid-90s). In the documentary I'm King Kong! The Exploits of Merian C. Cooper, included on the 2 disk DVD release of King Kong, Cooper refers to this beast as an Allosaurus, not a Tyrannosaurus, which would help explain the number of fingers. However, the creature was originally intended to be a Tyrannosaurus designed for the canceled Willis O'Brien film Creation (1931). It may also be worth noting that the Tyrannosaurus present in Willis O'Brien's earlier project The Lost World (1925) also had a third finger. The 1932 King Kong screenplay refers to the dinosaur only as a "Meat Eater." The creature appears in the iconic scene where Kong defends Anne from its attack, killing it after a protracted fight.
• An Elasmosaurus-like creature: a highly stylized, serpentine aquatic reptile with a long neck and tail as well as two pairs of flippers. It inhabits the bubbling swamp area inside Kong's cave. Goldner describes the Elasmosaurus as "being designed as more slender then the ones known to science, and its swimming limbs are less prominent."^[1] It battles Kong in the style of a giant, constricting snake.
• A Pteranodon-like pterosaur menaces Anne and is the last major creature to appear on Skull Island. It is slain by Kong.
• Teratornis: These birds can be seen flying around the dead Tyrannosaurus. One is seen eating the dead tyrannosaur and is frightened off by the approaching Jack Driscoll.
• Rhamphorhynchus: The tiny Rhamphorhynchus are seen flying around Skull Mountain. A few are flying around the large cave at the base of Skull Mountain, while others are seen at Kong's lair near the top of Skull Mountain.
• Archaeopteryx: The tiny Archaeopteryx are seen flying around in the jungle. Most notably a few fly by when the Stegosaurus enters the clearing, and one flies out of the dead tree that Kong puts Ann in before he goes to fight the sailors on the log bridge. According to Goldner, they "were made to flit among the trees on invisible wires."
• Arsinotherium: This huge prehistoric mammal chases the men onto the log bridge in the test reel. According to Goldner, Cooper had second thoughts about the Arsinotherium and "ordered the action to be refilmed using a Styracosaurus. Both versions were eventually thrown out because they captured too much audience attention."
• Gigantophis garstini: According to Goldner, "This huge serpent that appeared in one scene and later cut out of the film, had its living prototype in Egypt." This giant snake menaces Ann at the base of the dead tree that Kong puts her in before he battles the sailors on the log bridge. It was in the test reel, but later cut. However, you can still see Ann Darrow's reactions to it below her just before the T. rex shows up in the clearing.
• Cynognathus: created and then re-created for the "spider-pit sequence" and portrayed as a stout reptilian predator. Goldner stated that a was loosely adapted, as many of the creatures of the pit were imaginative.^[1]
• A giant crab, spider and tentacled "bug": all appear in the original notes, script, and re-created "spider-pit sequence," eating the surviving crewmen in the crevasse.
• Triceratops: In the original script only, encountered by Kong on volcanic flats; he hurls boulders at a herd of them and drives them into a stampede, impaling one of the crew of the Venture.
• Giant Bear: A gigantic bear that attacks Denham and Hilda, but is driven off by the son of Kong.
• Styracosaurus: Corners Hellstrom, Englehorn and Charlie into a cave in Son of Kong, destroying one of their guns. Originally slated to appear in King Kong, chasing the crew onto the log bridge and keeping them trapped there.
• Cave Serpent: A dragon-like creature that attacks Denham and Hilda, but is killed by Kiko. King Kong: A History of a Movie Icon calls the creature 'The Dragon' all through its review of Son of Kong.
• Second unknown, dragon-like plesiosaur: A very stylized incarnation of this marine reptile eats Hellstrom as he attempts to flee at the end of Son of Kong.

Species Marsh, 1877 (type) Marsh, 1887 Gilmore, 1914 Stegosaurus (IPA: ) is a genus of stegosaurid armoured dinosaur from the Late Jurassic period (Kimmeridgian to Early Tithonian) in what is now western North America. ... Carl Denham (born 1896 in New York City died in 1957 in California) is a fictional film director in the films King Kong and Son of Kong (both released in 1933), as well as in the 2005 remake of King Kong, and a 2004 illustrated-novel titled Kong: King of... In biology, a genus (plural genera) is a grouping in the classification of living organisms having one or more related and morphologically similar species. ... Species (type) Kentrosaurus aethiopica (pointed lizard from Africa) was a genus of dinosaur closely related to the better-known Stegosaurus. ... Species Apatosaurus ajax Apatosaurus excelsus Apatosaurus louisae Apatosaurus (pronounced ) meaning deceptive lizard, because its chevron bones were like those of Mosasaurus (Greek apatelos or apatelios = deceptive + sauros = lizard), often mistakenly referred to as Brontosaurus, is a genus of sauropod dinosaurs that lived about 140 million years ago, during the Jurassic... Families Brachiosauridae Camarasauridae Cetiosauridae Diplodocidae Euhelopodidae Nemegtosauridae Titanosauridae Vulcanodontidae Sauropoda, the sauropods, are a suborder or infraorder of the saurischian (lizard-hipped) dinosaurs. ... lizards are pink and become very aggressive when they see other females. ... Measuring snowpack in a crevasse on the Easton Glacier, North Cascades, USA A crevasse is a crack or fissure in a glacier or snow field. ... Jack, as portrayed by Bruce Cabot in the 1933 original film Jack Driscoll is a fictional character in the 1933 film King Kong and its 2005 remake. ... Species Lesser Antillean Iguana, Green Iguana, Iguanas are lizards native to tropical areas of Central and South America and the Caribbean. ... Desmatosuchus is an extinct genus of archosaur reptile belonging to the aetosaur order. ... Families See text Theropods (beast foot) are a group of bipedal, primarily carnivorous dinosaurs, belonging to the saurischian (lizard-hip) family. ... Species T. rex (type) Osborn, 1905 Synonyms Manospondylus Cope, 1892 Dynamosaurus Osborn, 1905  ?Nanotyrannus Bakker, Williams & Currie, 1988 Stygivenator Olshevsky, 1995 Dinotyrannus Olshevsky, 1995 Tyrannosaurus (pronounced IPA: , meaning tyrant lizard) is a genus of theropod dinosaur. ... Species type (Marsh, 1878) Paul, 1987 Mateus , 2006 jimmadseni Chure, 2000 vide Glut, 2003 Synonyms Creosaurus Marsh, 1878 Labrosaurus Marsh, 1879 Camptonotus Marsh, 1879  ?Epanterias Cope, 1878 Allosaurus (IPA: ) was a large (up to 11. ... Allosaurus by Charles R. Knight. ... Species type (Marsh, 1878) Paul, 1987 Mateus , 2006 jimmadseni Chure, 2000 vide Glut, 2003 Synonyms Creosaurus Marsh, 1878 Labrosaurus Marsh, 1879 Camptonotus Marsh, 1879  ?Epanterias Cope, 1878 Allosaurus (IPA: ) was a large (up to 11. ... Willis OBrien with his Academy Award. ... The Lost World is a 1925 silent adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyles book of the same name. ... Species Elasmosaurus (IPA pronunciation: ) meaning thin-plated lizard because it had platelike bones in its pelvic girdle (Greek elasmos = thin plate + sauros = lizard) is a plesiosaur with an extremely long neck that lived in the late Cretaceous. ... For other uses, see Snake (disambiguation). ... Species (type) Pteranodon (from Greek πτερ- wing and αν-οδων toothless), from the Late Cretaceous (santonian-campanian, 85-82 million years ago) of North America (Kansas, Alabama, Nebraska, Wyoming, South Dakota) was one of the largest pterosaur genera, with a wingspan of up to 9 m (30 feet). ... Suborders Pterodactyloidea Rhamphorhynchoidea * Pterosaurs (, from the Greek πτερόσαυρος, pterosauros, meaning winged lizard, often referred to as pterodactyls, from the Greek πτεροδάκτυλος, pterodaktulos, meaning winged finger ) were flying reptiles of the clade Pterosauria. ... Binomial name Teratornis merriami L. H. Miller, 1909 Synonyms Pleistogyps rex L. H. Miller, 1910 Teratornis merriami, Merriams Teratorn, was a huge North American bird, with a wingspan of around 3. ... Species (Goldfuss, 1831) (type) Lydekker, 1890 Peck, 1931 Synonyms Ornithopterus von Meyer, 1860 Pteromonodactylus Teriaev, 1967 Rhamphorhynchus was a long-tailed pterosaur of the Jurassic period. ... Species A. lithographica Meyer, 1861 (type) Synonyms See below Archaeopteryx (from Ancient Greek archaios meaning ancient and pteryx meaning feather or wing; pronounced Ar-kay-op-ter-iks ) is the earliest and most primitive known bird to date. ... Arsinotherium, an extinct herbivore of family Rhinocerotidae which lived in Egypt during the Oligocene about 35 million years ago. ... There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ... Species    Ref. ... Species (type) Marsh, 1890 Triceratops (IPA: ) was a herbivorous genus of ceratopsid dinosaur that lived during the late Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous Period, around 68 to 65 million years ago (mya) in what is now North America. ... Species Styracosaurus (meaning spiked lizard from Greek styrax/στυραξ spike at the butt-end of a spear-shaft and saurus/σαυρος lizard) was a herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaur from the Cretaceous Period, about 77 to 74 million years ago. ... For other uses, see Dragon (disambiguation). ... Families Plesiosaurs (IPA ) (Greek: plesios, near to + sauros, lizard) were large, carnivorous aquatic reptiles. ... Euryapsids Plesiosaurs Ichthyosaurs placodonts Diapsids mosasaurs marine crocodiles marine Iguanas Categories: Lists of animals | Reptiles ...

1976 Remake

• Aside from Kong, the only other animal that appears in this incarnation of the island is a giant snake very similar to the Gigantophis garstini. It battles with Kong and is torn in half.

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2005 Remake

• Megaprimatus kong: A huge species of gorilla, they were the largest primates to have ever lived, even bigger than Gigantopithecus, the previous record holder and possible ancestor. The average M. Kong could stand up to 6-8 meters (18-25 feet tall) and possibly weighed 5-8 tons. By 1933, there was only one of them left. This specimen, a male, was captured and brought back to New York by Carl Denham, but escaped and was shot down off the top of the Empire State Building, rendering the species of Megaprimatus kong extinct.
• Vastatosaurus rex: Originally portrayed as a cold-hearted killer, which grew up to 16 metres (50 feet), the V-Rex was portrayed with the same general attitude, but was considerably larger than the T-Rex and had an additional finger.
• Venatosaurus saevidicus: A large dromaeosaur. Size is 16-24 feet long. Distinguished by its sickle-like claw, in King Kong (2005 film) they killed Denham's cameraman, hunted in packs, and caused a Brontosaurus stampede. Another species is the smaller Venatosaurus impavidus. Venatosaurus saevidicus is the only predator on Skull Island that preys on adult Brontosaurus.
• Ferrucutus cerates: Ceratopsian seen briefly by the foot of the stairway to Kong's lair. Similar to a Styracosaurus only much larger. In the extended edition, a Ferrucutus attacks the crew, but is gunned down. (Like the Stegosaurus in the original, it does not die instantly)
• Brontosaurus baxteri: A herding, herbivorous creature that tramples several of the crew during a stampede.
• Terapusmordax obscenus: Giant bat-like creatures descended from rodents that were found in the cave where Kong lived in the 2005 film. They had long, bare tails, unlike real bats, which have only vestigial, webbed tails.
• Ligocristus innocens: A hadrosaur. No confirmed sightings are in the 2005 version, but it may be the carcass that the Foetodon are feeding on. It grew from 26-34 feet (8-10 metres) long.
• Decarnocimex (Flesh-removing bug): According to The World of Kong, these are "oversized relatives of crickets with bladed forelimbs for tearing apart carcasses." Carl Denham fights these when he falls into the pit.
• Weta-Rex; Deinacrida rex (Terrible-cricket king): Dog-sized Wetas which attacked Jack Driscoll.
• Arachno-Claw; Arachnocidis ("spider-claw"): The only remake of the original pit beasts, the Arachno-Claw is what the name implies - a mix of a spider and a crab.
• Deplector (Reaper): Giant lobster-like insects that live in crevasses lining the chasm walls. They reach out of their crevices to grab prey. Females are much, much larger than males. Blind, Deplectors are tethered to their holes by excretions that are elastic. This monster kills a sailor in the movie.
• Carnitis sordicus (Vile Meat-Weasel): One of the beasts that is most memorable, Carnictus is a large worm with a sphinter-maw at one end. It undulates inside-out and exposes the mouth to its prey, allowing it to eat. These monsters end up eating Lumpy the cook in the remake.
• Pirahnodon: In the extended cut, this gigantic fish attacks the Venture crew as they pass through a swamp, devouring several crewmen.
• Scorpiopede: In the extended cut, several of these eurypterid-like creatures attack the venture crew, but flee as the Pirahnodon approaches.
• Brutornis: In the extended cut, Lumpy shoots this 7ft tall carnivorous bird as it approaches the crew unseen, but heard. Driscoll believes it is Anne, but is relieved to see the bird instead, dying on the ground. Lumpy then ends the bird's suffering. It is the only creature in the film to be portrayed by a puppet rather than CGI.
• Foetodon: A large, crocodillian reptile that was eating a presumed Ligocristus carcass that chases Ann and later falls prey to a V.rex.

King Kong battles a pterosaur in the original 1933 version. ... Species Gigantopithecus blacki Gigantopithecus bilaspurensis Gigantopithecus giganteus Gigantopithecus was a genus of ape that existed from as long ago as five million years to as recently as 100 thousand years ago in what today are China, India, and Vietnam, placing Gigantopithecus in the same time frame and geographical location as... Year 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the state. ... Carl Denham (born 1896 in New York City died in 1957 in California) is a fictional film director in the films King Kong and Son of Kong (both released in 1933), as well as in the 2005 remake of King Kong, and a 2004 illustrated-novel titled Kong: King of... The Empire State Building is a 102-story Art Deco skyscraper in New York City, New York on the intersection of Fifth Avenue and West 34th Street. ... An adult V-rex facing off against Kong on Skull Island Vastatosaurus rex (Ravager-Lizard King), or V-rex is a fictional dinosaur appearing in the 2005 remake of King Kong as one of the creatures of Skull Island. ... Venatosaurus saevidicus (Furious Hunter-Lizard) is a fictional dinosaur from the 2005 remake of King Kong. ... Genera Achillobator Adasaurus Bambiraptor Cryptovolans Dromaeosaurus Deinonychus Gracilraptor Microraptor Pyroraptor Saurornitholestes Sinornithosaurus Utahraptor Variraptor Velociraptor Among the dinosaurs, the Dromaeosaurids or Dromaeosauridae (running lizards) were fast and agile dominant carnivores throughout the Cretaceous period. ... King Kong is a 2005 remake of the 1933 King Kong film about a fictional giant ape called Kong. ... Binomial name (Marsh, 1879) vide Riggs, 1903 Synonyms Brontosaurus excelsus Marsh, 1879c Brontosaurus (pronounced ), meaning thunder lizard (from the Greek brontē/βροντη meaning thunder and sauros/σαυρος meaning lizard), is a deprecated genus of sauropod dinosaurs. ... Venatosaurus saevidicus (Furious Hunter-Lizard) is a fictional dinosaur from the 2005 remake of King Kong. ... Ferrucutus cerastes (Horned iron-hide) is a fictional dinosaur described in the 2005 book The World of Kong, an encyclopedia about the ecology of Skull Island as depicted in the 2005 remake of King Kong. ... Groups Psittacosaurus Coronosauria Ceratopia (ser-a-TOP-ee-ah) or Ceratopsia is a group of ornithischian dinosaurs which evolved during the Cretaceous period in what is now North America and Asia. ... Species Styracosaurus (meaning spiked lizard from Greek styrax/στυραξ spike at the butt-end of a spear-shaft and saurus/σαυρος lizard) was a herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaur from the Cretaceous Period, about 77 to 74 million years ago. ... Brontosaurus baxteri (Baxters thunder lizard) is a fictional dinosaur described in the 2005 book The World of Kong, an encyclopedia about the ecology of Skull Island as depicted in the 2005 remake of King Kong. ... Terapusmordax obscenus (Filthy Pungent-Bat) is a large bat-like creature featured in the 2005 remake of King Kong. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... For the flying mammal see bat. ... This article does not make a clear distinction between fact and fiction. ... Hadrosaurus foulkii is a hadrosaurid dinosaur species, and the first full dinosaur skeleton found in North America. ... This article does not make a clear distinction between fact and fiction. ... Orders †Stylonuroidea Diener, 1924 †Eurypteroidea Burmeister, 1843 The eurypterids (sea scorpion) were the largest known arthropods that ever lived (with the possible exception of the Arthropleurids). ...

Other Uses

From Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)

• The video game The Curse of Monkey Island features a Skull Island, which is actually shaped like a duck.
• The 1992 film Braindead, released in North America as Dead Alive also features a Skull Island
• A skull-shaped island was seen in the original teaser trailers for Disney's 2003 film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.
• Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004) includes an island called Totenkopf's ("Death's Head") Island.
• Skull Island was one of the original attractions at Six Flags Over Texas on opening day in 1961.
• A puzzle from the first game in the Simon the Sorcerer series involves retrieving a herb from a place called Skull Island, in this case an actual giant's skull half-submerged in a swamp.
• A section of the video game Broken Sword 2: The Smoking Mirror takes place in the Caribbean and features a skull-shaped island called Zombie Island.
• Skull Island appears in the television series The Simpsons in its parody of King Kong in the episode "Treehouse of Horror III," but the island is jokingly renamed "Ape Island." Carl states his wish that they were going to "Candy Apple Island", which is also infested with apes, albeit of a smaller size than those on "Ape Island".
• Skull Island was a name given to an island in the anime and manga One Piece.
• The scientific name for the giant ape King Kong, according only to supplemental material created for the 2005 film, is Megaprimatus kong. This species was said to have evolved from Gigantopithecus. King Kong was the last of the Megaprimatus.
• In the film The Devil's Rejects, the bounty hunter portrayed by Diamond Dallas Page says of his targets, "They're going to think King Kong came down from Skull Island!"
• In Disney's Peter Pan, there is a tiny skull-shaped island off the coast of Neverland called "skull rock".

• The actual "Skull Island" is found in Australia, Northern Territory ([1])
• In "I Dream of Jeannie" Season 3, Episode 20, Commander Porter brings Majors Nelson and Healey to Skull Island to "Live off the Land" as part of a diet program.

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