Dinosaur

Dinosaurs ( 恐竜 , Kyōryū ) were a large type of reptile that lived in the Land of Redaku millions of years ago. They went extinct when a meteorite struck the region. In the millennia that followed, the wetlands that the dinosaurs once lived in turned into a vast mountain range, at the peaks of which the dinosaurs' fossilised remains can commonly be found. Humans who discover these fossils more generically refer to them as " dragons " ( 竜獣 , Ryū-jū ).

A few years prior to the events of Sasuke Retsuden , Zansūru , a paleontologist , discovered a way to revive the dead . With the approval of Redaku's Prime Minister , Zansūru began excavating dinosaur fossils from the area surrounding the Astronomy Research Institute with plans of reviving them to use as an army; he recruited Jiji to help him. They revived one dinosaur in order to test the technique, which they named Menō . Once enough fossils were collected, dozens of additional dinosaurs were revived, to be used to invade the Land of Fire . However, before they could be used for this purpose, the Prime Minister was overthrown by Prince Nanara , Zansūru died while fighting Sasuke Uchiha , and Jiji was convinced by Sakura Uchiha to return all of the revived dinosaurs to the afterlife.

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- Masashi Kishimoto originally planned to have Naruto Uzumaki learn to summon dragons. The design he came up with used the basic aesthetics of Chinese dragons , but made fat to evoke European dragons .
- Sasuke Uchiha had a toy that looked like a dinosaur when he was a child.

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