Today on this, my free coloring pages blog,
I am posting a drawing I did of a North American predator...
Deinonychus, the Theropod Dinosaur.
This was a small to medium-sized Theropod dinosaur... a type of raptor. Deinonychus grew to be up to 11 feet or 3.4 meters long. It lived in the early to Mid-Cretaceous Period in North America. It was probably a pack hunter. It had sharp claws and weighed around 220 pounds, or a mass of around 100 kg. It was deadly. It stood about 4 feet tall or about 1.22 meters. It did have the raptor killer-claw on the inside toe. I believe fossils of Deinonychus were found with the fossil of an Iguanodon that the Deinonychus pack had killed for dinner ... or breakfast ... or lunch.
During the Early to Mid Cretaceous, much of a divided North America was a subtropical floodplain and subtropical forests. Here we see Deinonychus in the forest hunting. It has risen up higher on its back legs to look for food. It was hiding.
NOTE: If you want this coloring page I drew for you to be printed so you can color it... just click on the "Paleontology" button. Then scroll down to the bottom of the "Mesozoic Life" part of the list. IF you are accessing this site in August or September of 2026 then this title will be on the bottom of that part of the list of Mesozoic drawings. Have fun coloring!






