Talos sampsoni a New Raptor from Utah coloring page

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Today's new drawing is of a newly discovered raptor dinosaur

named Talos samsoni. 

Talos sampsoni 

Talos samsoni was a raptor dinosaur that lived in what is now Southern Utah. It was around 6 f 1/2eet long or bout meters long. It weighed about 84 lbs or a mass of 38 kg. It had killer sickle claws - one on each foot. It had feathers and probably was a pack hunter. It lived 78 million years ago in the Late Cretaceous. By the way, this dinosaur was around a yard or just under a meter high.  

I got to meet the Paleontologist who named Talos.  She is Dr. Lindsay Zanno. She is a professor at North Carolina State University and Head of Paleontology at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Science.  She is an expert in Theropod dinosaurs.  In fact, if you read my last post, she was on the team of Paleontologists who identified Nanotyrannus as a true separate species from T. rex.  Dr. Zanno got her master's and her PhD from the University of Utah. I expect that is where she was taught by Dr. Scott Sampson.  So that is why Talos has the species name of samsoni. Dr. Sampson was also involved in the discovery of Talos samsoni.

The Pterosaur is similar to a Cryodrakon. An ulna or arm bone (wing bone) of a fairly large Pterosaur has been found in the same part of Southern Utah.  This flying reptile or Pterosaur was NOT a dinosaur.  But it/they lived with the dinosaurs - or at least they lived at the same time. A Cryodrakon had a wingspan of 16 feet or 5 meters. However, there is new evidence that the original fossils were of subadults.  It may be that Cryodrakon was as big as Quetzalcoatlus, with a wingspan of 33 feet or 10 meters.  In any case, there WAS a large Pterosaur living in what is now the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument - where Talos was found. 

NOTE: This drawing, in printable form, is found by clicking on the button labeled "Paleontology." Then scroll down to the bottom of the "Mesozoic Life" section of the drop-down menu. Have fun coloring this relatively newly discovered raptor dinosaur!