Kabuto leap from the water to scare would-be predators with their glowing red eyes, or to latch onto visitors they think make good prey. They are not popular choices for fossil resurrection.

Full Kabutops skeletons are an astoundingly popular museum exhibit, but rarely found in the wild. Black market dealers resurrect Kabutops fragments and sell the skeleton when it dies to fake history. This is why Kabuto guards are a mobster film staple.