Prehistoric Coloring Pages Woolly Mammoth and Hagerman Horse

  To my American Friends:

Happy Election Day!

In honor of this day, I drew two pictures that sort of represent the two main political parties. 

The Woolly Mammoth is drawn to honor the Republicans - whose animal symbol is an elephant.

The Hagerman Horse is drawn to honor the Democrats - whose animal symbol is the donkey. 

Woolly Mammoth Mother and Calf

The Woolly Mammoth lived in many Northern latitudes.  But they lived quite a ways south as well.  They lived when the Earth was much cooler than it is now.  There is some thought that Man hunted them to extinction.  The fully grown male woolly mammoth could weigh up to 13,200 lbs or 6 tonnes and stand 10 feet or 3 meters tall.  Females were closer 4 tonnes or around  8800 lbs and about 9/5 feet tall.  

Hagerman Horse Mare and Foal

The Hagerman Horse lived in what is now North America.  It first appeared 3.5 million years ago and went extinct about 10,000 years ago. A species that is so long-lived is very successful.  It was up to 57 inches or 1.4 meters tall.  It was about the size of the African Zebra.  In fact, the Hagerman Horse is sometimes called the American Zebra. 

NOTE:  These drawings are found in printable form by clicking on the button labeled Paleontology.  Then scroll down to the bottom of the Cenozoic Life section,  Click on the title you want to print.  Have fun coloring these prehistoric mammals.  Oh, and by the way Americans:  Happy Election Day.  Please be civil and support whatever candidates win in the various races.  

Grass Fairy with Vole coloring page

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I have drawn nearly all these pictures. 

Today's new drawing is of a Grass Fairy.

She is hanging out with her friend a vole.

Garmenia the Grass Fairy with Vole Friend

Garmenia is a Grass Fairy.  She cares for the grass and the animals that live there.  For example, she is friends with this vole.  Garmenia is beautiful yet kind.  Beauty without kindness is not attractive.  But kindness alone makes one much more attractive.  That is the way of it.

About voles:  Voles are small rodents that are very mouse-like.  However, they are not mice.  They are more closely related to lemmings and muskrats.  There are many species of vole like meadow vole, woodland vole, bank vole, and even American water vole.  They are named for where they tend to live.  They have comparatively large heads, compact bodies and short faces. 

Voles are an opportunistic species because they can breed fast.  Gestation is only 21 days.  Depending on the species the vole can be under one ounce and up to 1.5 ounces.  Many animals prey on voles.  That is a good thing or we'd be overrun.  Opportunistic species can breed so fast that without predators they would multiply uncontrollably. Some of the predators of voles are housecats, bobcats, coyotes, foxes, badgers, weasels, owls, hawks, and even gulls.  Hawks and owls are probably the biggest or most common predators of voles. 

NOTE:  This drawing, in printable form, is found by clicking on the button labeled Fantasy.  Then scroll down to the bottom of the list of drawings.  IF you are accessing this page during November of 2024 then this drawing will be at or near the bottom of the list.  Have fun coloring! 

 

Paint Unicorns at Overlook coloring pages

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Here you will find over 3000 drawings that can be printed to color.

I drew almost all of these over the last few years.  

A grandniece and grandnephew did a few of them.

Today's new drawings are of Paint Unicorns on the edge of a cliff. 

Paint Unicorn Mare at Overlook

My Unicorn drawings are usually stylized.  They are usually not purely realistic.  Of course, you could say that Unicorns aren't realistic anyway.  On the other hand, some people think that Unicorns ARE real and often run with wild horses like North American Mustangs or Australian Brumbies, or Takhi in Asia, or Tarpan in Eastern Europe. 

The above drawing is of a Paint or spotted Unicorn who is a Female.  This is a cartoon-ish drawing.  The long eyelashes usually identify a female in cartoons.  Male characters, if they have eyelashes, usually have shorter eyelashes. Hence the below drawing.  

Paint Unicorn Stallion at Overlook

If you look closely this Stallion or Unicorn Stallion has shorter eyelashes. One other difference indicates that he is male.  There are a few other differences between the two drawings.  Can you identify the differences?  Answers at the bottom. 

NOTE:  These drawings, in printable form, are found by clicking on the button labeled Fantasy Myths and Circus.  Then scroll down to the bottom of the list of drawings.  Then click on the title of the drawing you want to print and color,  This site has no online coloring because as a former kindergarten teacher, I feel that coloring is an important educational skill.  I taught mostly primary grades in elementary schools for 11 years before I became a junior high science teacher.  (No, I was not an art teacher.  But my drawing skills really came in handy in both elementary and junior high.)

Differences in drawings - answers: 

The differences are:  number of birds,   spot patterns,   male parts on stallion vs smooth tummy on mare,  eyelash length,  shading,  spots or bumps at base of horn,   manes - different lines within mane,   tails - different lines within tail,   tip of one blade of grass,  and eye shape.   Do you see any more?  

Can you locate the happy tree?

Halloween 2024 coloring pages

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I have drawn over 3000 drawings that are posted here.

You can print these coloring page drawings for you, or your children, or children you know.

Then you or/and the kids can color the drawings.

Today's new drawings are all about Halloween 2024. 

Little Girl Witch Trick-or-Treating

Roof View of Haunted House

Happy Jack-O-Lantern

Halloween Black Cat

Halloween Spider Close-up

NOTE:  These Halloween drawings, along with many more, are found by clicking on the button labeled Holidays.  Then scroll down to the Halloween section of the lists.  These recent drawings, from this year, will be at the bottom of the list if you are accessing this during October 2024.

Rosannia the Mushroom Fairy

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Today's new drawing for you to print and color is of 

a beautiful and kind Mushroom Fairy named Rosannia.

Rosannia the Mushroom Fairy

Rosannia is a lovely and also kind Mushroom Fairy.  She uses Fairy Magic to minimize or shrink mushrooms so she can take them into the Fairy Village.  Fairy villagers are found underground, under trees.  In fact, many Fairy Villages include parts of the tree.  These villages are not dark dank places.  Fairies have both magic and advanced technology.  They use these two things in conjunction to create a beautiful and well-lit underground village.  They charm a clear rock to act as both an underground sun and a source of light and heat.  They magically suspend the glowing stone near the ceiling of the village's cavern.  

Rosannia will return the mushroom to its natural size once she gets it into the village's cavern.  Then it can be cut up as a source of food and sometimes medicines - depending upon the species of mushroom. Of course, she knows which fungi are actually poisonous toadstools and she leaves those alone.  Since Fairies, in their natural size, are about five inches tall, Rosannia and her fellow Fairies can get quite a good meal out of a fairly large edible mushroom.  

Rosannia, like all Fairies, knows that true beauty is found in your soul or personality.  Yes, she is a striking beauty, but if you get to know her you soon find that her beauty is far more than skin deep. She regularly takes juvenile Fairies out to teach them how to gather edible and medicinal fungi.  She is very kind to them yet also a good teacher to them.  

NOTE:  This drawing is found in printable form by clicking on the button labeled "Fantasy, Myths, and Circus."  Then scroll down to the bottom of the list of drawings.  IF you access this during or around October 2024 then this will be at or near the bottom of the list of Fantasy drawings.  Click on the title and you will get your printable coloring page.  Have fun coloring this lovely Fairy. 

Triassic Sea coloring page

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I am breaking with my tradition and posting this second drawing on the same day

but on a different post.  This is kinda rare for me.

The new drawing that I drew for this post is of 

a Triassic Sea.

Triassic Sea

The above animals are from the Triassic Sea.  There are corals, sea lilies, fish, (including a bonehead fish), a smaller Ichthyosuar, and a Tanystropheus - which was an early Plesiosaur or more appropriately a Proto-Plesiosaur.  There are also cephalopods, such as an ammonite and an orthocone.  The Ammonite is using its defense mechanism on the Ichthyosaur.  The Ammonite is inking the Ichthyosaur.  This may help the Ammonite escape.  There were some ichthyosaur with shell-crushing teeth.

I must confess that the leaf-like animals are Rangeomorphs and they were actually extinct a couple of hundred years before the Triassic Period.  But they are sure fun to draw.

Tanystropheus was possibly up to 20 feet or 6 meters in length.  It had a ridiculously long neck, probably to help it snag fish.  Ichthyosaurs in the Triassic were of varying sizes.  This one is rather small in comparison to some that got to be 70 feet or 21 meters long.

NOTE:  This drawing is found in printable form by clicking on the Paleontology button and then scrolling down to the bottom of the Mesozoic Life section.  If you are accessing this on or around Oct. 2024 then you will see the title of this drawing near or at the bottom of the Mesozoic section of the Paleontology list.  

Semi-feathered T. rex and Chick coloring page

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Today's new drawing is of a semi-feathered T. rex and her chick. 

 Semi-feathered T. rex and Chick

This drawing is of a mother T. rex.  She is hunting or teaching hunting skills to her chick.  A few years ago at a dinosaur symposium at the University of Utah, a paleontologist told me that sooner or later we will see evidence that Tyrannosaurus rex was a feathered Theropod. Lately, the media portrayals of T. rex are starting to show at least some feathers or protofethers.  This drawing is like one of those.  

Large animals in warm climates have trouble getting rid of heat so maybe T. rex was more feathered as a juvenile and less feathered as an adult.  Or, maybe both juvenile and adult had just a few protofeathers... like depicted in this drawing.  

T. rex size has been debated but some estimates put it at 44 feet long and weighing up to 9 tons or 18,000 lbs.  "Teen-aged" T. rexes were more lightly built and may have chased prey into ambushes where the full-sized adults killed the prey.  Adult Tyrannosaurs had a tremendous bite force in their bite and may have been able to shatter neck bones with one good bite.

The late Cretaceous Period of the Mesozoic Era saw and uptick in volcanic activity.  In some places several species of dinosaurs had already gone extinct before the Meteorite hit.  So that is why I drew the erupting volcano.  One final point, the Pterosaurs in the drawing are Pteranodon, a common Pterosaur from the late Cretaceous.  

NOTE:  This drawing, in printable form, is found by clicking on the button labeled "Paleontology" and scrolling down to the bottom of the Mesozoic Life section.  If you are accessing this around October 2024 then the title for this drawing will be at or near the bottom of the Mesozoic section of the Paleontology list.  Just click on the title and you will get your printable coloring page.   Have fun coloring!