Dinos for small kids to Color

Spinosaurus taking a Swim

These drawings are for young kids to color.  Most of them do not have too much detail.   But they do have SOME detail.  The printable versions are found by clicking on the correct button above.  They are all new drawings so scroll down to the bottom of the correct list.   

First is Spinosaurus.  Spinosaurus was a swimming dinosaur that lived near the water. . . probably rivers and lakes.  They ate fish, like the pictured sawfish.   Some sawfish were much bigger than this one.   The snout of a Spinosaur had motion sensors to detect fish in muddy river water.   The large finger claw was like a sushi knife.  Although Spinosaurus was the biggest carnivore among the dinosaurs, it had relatively weak jaws.  It cut its food up.  

T. rex Mommy with her Two Chicks

Egg shell from Portugal indicate that baby Theropods, like T. rex, were hatched with sharp teeth for eating  but clearly without the ability to take care of themselves.  Paleontologist Robert Bakker says that when he thinks of T. rex he thinks of tenderness. . . because they were clearly good parents.   

Lythronax with Cynodont Friend

Lythronax was a type of Tyrannosaur that lived around 80 million years ago in what is now Southern Utah.   Its name means "Gore King".  It was around 26 feet or 8 meters long.   It may have had protofeathers as shown here.  I have seen friendship between animals of different species.  Like our dog when I was a teen was named Buck.  He, Buck, was best buddies with our female Tabby cat named Junior.   So I imagined that maybe a young Theropod like Lythronax could have become friends with a Cynodont.  Cynodonts were an early mammal that lived in the dinosaur times.  

Triceratops Coming at You

This Triceratops is a drawn with a bit more detail.  Triceratops was the largest and last of the Ceratopsians dinosaurs.  It had eyebrow horns as long as broom handles.  Its head was attached by a joint that allowed it to swivel hits head around to presumably fight off  predators like T. rex and to spar with other dinosaurs of its own kind.   The "eye spots" on the frill are an inferred trait.   Some modern animals have eye spots to make the animals look bigger.   So some paleontologists infer that the frill on a Ceratopsian or horned dinosaur would be a good place for eye spots to evolve.