Today's new drawing is Tyrannosaurus vs Triceratops.
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see the new coloring page drawing and two older drawings.
However.... I just discovered something today... If you copy the version of my new drawing on this blog site and paste it onto a program like Microsoft Word, you will get a better print of the dinosaurs. O course you can still print from the category button
pages... but some of them (those drawn in pencil) are of
less quality there due to the nature of PDF files.
The pictures on the actual blog... this page... are
all PNG files and there is more detail.
pages... but some of them (those drawn in pencil) are of
less quality there due to the nature of PDF files.
The pictures on the actual blog... this page... are
all PNG files and there is more detail.
Tyrannosaurus rex and Triceratops horridus are considered two of the most iconic dinosaurs. They certainly would have met in battle as shown in the below drawings. They both lived in the Late Cretaceous Period in the western part of North America.
Triceratops was the biggest of the Ceratopsian or horned herbivorous dinosaurs. It was around 30 feet (9.14 meters) long and weighed between 6-13 tons. It had a ball joint on its neck that would have allowed it to move its head and wield its long brow horns like double swords or two spears. Paleontologists have good evidence that Ceratopsians lived in herds so a pack of T. rex would have been facing lots of sharp horns that were as long as broom handles. Those horns would be powered by large and powerful muscles. It is clear that T. rex sometimes won the battle and ate Triceratops, but a healthy herd would have been a hard kill. But of course, predators prey on the old, the young, and the weak or ill animals of their prey species.
I need to add a correction. I am writing this part of my post a day or two later. I just learned this so I should add that a separate species of Triceratops, called Triceratops prorsus had a few slight differences and may have been bigger than Triceratops horridus. Triceratops prorsus lived at the very end of the Cretaceous Period, and Triceratops horridus lived a few million years earlier. I learned this from a PBS show I saw tonight called Prehistoric Road Trip. It was a very good show! I plan on drawing these two species of Triceratops soon. Now back to the original post.
I need to add a correction. I am writing this part of my post a day or two later. I just learned this so I should add that a separate species of Triceratops, called Triceratops prorsus had a few slight differences and may have been bigger than Triceratops horridus. Triceratops prorsus lived at the very end of the Cretaceous Period, and Triceratops horridus lived a few million years earlier. I learned this from a PBS show I saw tonight called Prehistoric Road Trip. It was a very good show! I plan on drawing these two species of Triceratops soon. Now back to the original post.
Tyrannosaurus rex had a length of around 44 feet (13.4 meters) and weighed perhaps up to 9.75 tons as well. Tyrannosaurus was the last of the large carnivorous Theropod dinosaurs. There had been some previous species of Tyrannosaur... like Albertosaurus and Daspleteosaurus. T. rex was one of the biggest Theropods ever to walk the planet.
T. rex had puny arms and hands compared to the rest of its body, but it may still have used those arms to stand up from a laying down position. T. rex did not need long arms to grapple with prey because its bite was incredibly powerful. It could crush bone! In fact, I have a piece of what is most likely Tyrannosaur droppings... fossilized of course. These fossilized animal droppings are called coprolite. The piece of coprolite I have has a piece of bone inside it. This shows that the Tyrannosaur crushed and ate the bones of its prey. There is also some good evidence that Tyrannosaurs lived and hunted in packs.
T. rex had puny arms and hands compared to the rest of its body, but it may still have used those arms to stand up from a laying down position. T. rex did not need long arms to grapple with prey because its bite was incredibly powerful. It could crush bone! In fact, I have a piece of what is most likely Tyrannosaur droppings... fossilized of course. These fossilized animal droppings are called coprolite. The piece of coprolite I have has a piece of bone inside it. This shows that the Tyrannosaur crushed and ate the bones of its prey. There is also some good evidence that Tyrannosaurs lived and hunted in packs.
These first two drawings are similar. But they were drawn years apart. The quality of art is improved now... I think. The first drawing has a pair of Quetzalcoatlus Pterosaurs in the air. The second has a Pteranodon Pterosaur in the air. Both of these Pterosaurs were living in the Late Cretaceous when T. rex and Triceratops lived.
Tyrannosaurus vs Triceratops
(This is the new drawing today. Coincidentally I actually drew Triceratops prorsus... because the Triceratops in THIS drawing has a shorter beak and a larger nose horn...
although the horn SHOULD be pointed more forward.)
although the horn SHOULD be pointed more forward.)
Tyrannosaurus rex vs Triceratops horridus
Tyrannosaurus vs Triceratops color drawing
(This drawing was done primarily with pastel chalk and a little Prisma colored pencil.
It is NOT a printable coloring page. But look closely at it. The front T. rex looks like it
is looking at one Triceratops, then you blink and it looks like it looking at the other Triceratops.)
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