This is a free coloring pages blog.
The new drawing today is a
flying dino called Wulong bohaiensis.
Scroll down to the new coloring page drawing
of Wulong bohaiensis.
Wulong bohaiensis is a fairly new discovery in the
Paleontology world. The name means "Dancing Dragon" because
the complete fossil shows a small flying dinosaur that
looks like it is dancing.
Photo of Wulong fossil, via Wikipedia
It is a true, feathered flying dinosaur.
It is assigned to the Microraptor Family.
It was small, only just bigger than a crow. But it had a long tail
that stuck out a long ways behind the body.
One of the interesting things is the one fossil they found of Wulong
was a juvenile... yet it had long, mature feathers. This is different
from how birds mature. A modern bird has the great majority of
its grown BEFORE it starts getting mature feathers. So these
"bird dinos"... that WERE the ancestors of our modern birds,
matured differently that thier decendants. Wulong lived in the
early Cretaceous Period... about 120 million years ago.
Wulong bohaiensis the Dancing Dragon
(This is the new drawing today.)
Below is an additonal older
drawing of another flying dinosaur.
These drawings both can be found, in printable form,
by clicking on the Paleontology button up at the
top of the page. Then scroll down to the bottom
for the new drawing. The older drawing will be
found further up the list.
Microraptor flying through the Forest
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