Triceratops near an erupting Volcano coloring page

 Hi everyone. For my regular visitors, I apologize for not posting in a while. 

We had COVID and I did not feel up to posting for a while. 

Today our new post is of a Triceratops horridus. 

Triceratops near an erupting Volcano

Triceratops horridus was a 30-foot-long herbivorous dinosaur that lived in the late Cretaceous Period at the same time as Tyrannosaurus rex.  It had huge brow horns for both defense and very likely for sexual selection... meaning to impress the females. 

The Pterosaur in the drawing is a Pteranodon, a common Pterosaur from the late Cretaceous Period.  Pteranodon had an 18-foot or 5.6-meter wide wingspan.  It was a toothless fish eater that may have dived into the water to catch fish. 

The erupting volcano in the distance is a growing stratovolcano.  It has clear lava flow evidence and it is in a large eruption with lava bombs and lava AND ash blowing out of the top.   Stratovolcanoes have ash eruptions and then lava eruptions that create a layered effect on the volcano.

You may have noticed no little spikes or triangular bones along the edge of the frill.  John Horner, the famous paleontologist, has a theory that those bones are absorbed into the frill as the adult Triceratops matures.  He also theorizes that the horns start pointing forward only in fully grown and sexually mature adults. 

This is an ink drawing with some shading in pencil.  The ink part was drawn with a fine-point soft-tip pen.  To get to the printable version of the drawing just click on the button labeled "Paleontology" and scroll down to the bottom of the Mesozoic Life part of the list.  Have fun coloring!