Wulong bohaiensis the Dancing Dragon and Microraptor the Flying Dinosaurs coloring pages

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

This flying dinosaur is NOT a type of Pterosaur or Pteradactyl.  

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