Firewatch Fairy and a few other Fairies coloring pages

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Today's new drawing is a Firewatch Fairy.

Firewatch Fairy

Firewatch Fairies are a type of Forest Fairy that tend to the forest, but also keep a sharp eye out for wildfires.  In fact, if campers leave a fire smoldering IF a Firewatch Fairy is nearby, they will put it out.  They do this with a water charm where they use their wand to remove water from the air and use the water to douse the fire.

With as many mortal campers as there are, there are not enough Firewatch Fairies to douse every carelessly abandoned fire.  So douse the fire BEFORE you leave the camp!   

Like most Fairies, this Firewatch Fairy, whose name is Illumbra, by the way, is seen here on a tall stump.  She is watching for fires.  Notice that she has a larger than average wand.  This is because larger wands can be more powerful and water charms for dousing fires require a lot of power.  

Illumbra is seen here in mortal size, but of course, she often is Fairy size at around 5 inches tall.  That is just under 13 cm tall.  Notice that she is also wearing a flying belt.  Fairies can fly short distances or long distances at slow speed without a flying belt.  But a Fairy wearing a flying belt can fly far distances at high speed.  Firewatch Faires need the flying belt to cover more area as they search for possible fires and for mortal's mistakes... like abandoned or untended campfires.  

Wild animals, who are not as intelligent as mortals or Fairies, still recognize that Firewatch Fairies are helping keep them safe.  By the way, most Forest Fairies can communicate with the animals that they care for. That is why you see two friendly deer in the background and under the pine trees.  

I should also mention that Fairy tech is more advanced than mortal tech, but even the Faires are very challenged by big forest fires and other types of wildfires.  So do your best to not be part of the problem and douse your fires, don't drive on dry grass, don't go target shooting near dry brush, etc., etc. 

NOTE:  This drawing, in printable form, can be found by clicking on the button labeled Fantasy, Myths, and Circus.  Then scroll down to the bottom for this new drawing.  All new drawings are at the bottom of the correct list.  Below are some drawings of Fairies from previous posts.  These drawings, in printable form, will be found further up the correct list. 

Forest Fairy climbing a Tree

Fairy kneeling on Leaves

Forest Fairy on a Mushroom

Forest Fairy Couple

Fairy Healer named Brooklyn

Fairy sitting under a Tree

Fairy with Squirrel

Fairy by a Stream diminutive size

Fairy flying with a Robin

Fairy Family with Hummingbird

Fairy Laurentia with Box Elder Beetle

Fairy with a Cardinal

Wildlife Fairy Serenia with her Mouse Friend

Spanish Fairies

Mushroom Fairy with Two Wands

Mushroom Fairy with a Mayfly

Fairy named Arley with Bobcat Friend

Barosaurus the huge Sauropod from Utah and a few other Sauropods coloring pages

 

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Today's new drawing is of a huge Sauropod called Barosaurus. 

Barosaurus just laid Eggs

Barosaurus was a huge Sauropod that has been found in the Western United States... particularly in the Morrison Formation, and it is one of the dinosaurs found at Dinosaur National Monument in Eastern Utah.  Barosaurus is a type of Diplodocid.  It is a close relative to Diplodocus.  It is less robust than other Sauropods like Apatosaurus.  That means it was more lightly built.  Still, it was an enormous animal.  

Brigham Young University (BYU) has a vertebra that is suspected of being from the Barosaurus.  If that turns out to be the case then Barosaurus may have been as long as 157 feet or 48 meters!  That would mean it weighed around 73 tons or 66 metric tons.  Some estimates say it would have been closer to 66 tons or 60 metric tons.  That would make Barosaurus one of the largest land animals ever to have lived! (Argentinosaurus and Patagotitan were still heavier, but not longer.)  By the way, Sauroposeidon was probably the tallest dinosaur.  It was around 60 feet tall.  That is over 18 meters!

Barosaurus neck vertebrae were very long and they seem to indicate that it could move its head side to side more than up and down. . . so possibly it fed on lower vegetation.  Barosaurus, which had a very long neck, still only had 9 vertebrae in its neck. 

No Barosaurus skull has ever been found, however, its close cousin Diplodocus had a long narrow skull so that is how I drew this Barosaurus skull.  The teeth would have been peg-like and near the front of the mouth for stripping leaves off of trees.  Some Sauropods, like Brachiosaurus and Sauroposeidon, had spoon-like teeth and those Sauropods may have eaten quite differently.  

Barosaurus, like Diplodocus and Apatosaurus, had shorter front legs and longer back legs.  This is different from the Brachiosaurs like Sauroposeidon and Brachiosaurus.  Brachiosaurs had longer front legs and shorter back legs.  This is why even a full-sized Barosaurus would not have been as tall as a Brachiosaur like Sauroposeidon.  

Barosaurus had shorter vertebrae in its tail so its tail was shorter than of Diplodocus, however, the dinosaur were still both very very long.  The more complete fossilized skeletons of Barosaurus show an animal that was around 89 feet or 27 meters in length.  This smaller Borasaurus would have weighed around 22 tons or 20 metric tons.  

Sauropods laid their round eggs near forests and abandoned the eggs to Nature.  That is one theory.  It is thought that sub-adults would join the migrating herd of their species when the sub-adult reached roughly the size of a full-grown African elephant.  So in this drawing, the Barosaurus mother just laid her eggs near the forest.  Other Barosaurus mothers from her herd would soon follow and so the same.  This meant that there were thousands of eggs. . . or at least several hundred.  When the baby Sauropods hatched they would make a dash for the cover of the forest.  They would feast on ferns etc. until they were large enough to join the herd.  

Like sea turtles, probably only one in a hundred Sauropods survived to reproduce.  But once they joined the herd the juveniles or sub-adults would have protection from the adults.  The whip-like tail was a powerful defensive weapon.  A tail of the adult Barosaurus would have weighed tens of thousands of pounds and no predator could ignore that.  Also, there is the thought that perhaps the whip-like tails could crack (like cracking a whip)... and that perhaps this would create a very loud and possibly painful to predators sound.  IF the tail whipped fast enough it may have even created a sonic boom!  

NOTE:  This drawing, in printable form, can be found by clicking on the button labeled "Paleontology." Then remember to scroll down to the bottom of the list in the Mesozoic section to see the title of this new drawing.  Then click on the title to get the printable version of the drawing.  I am also adding a couple of other Saropod drawings below.  These animals were all mentioned in today's post.  They are all Sauropods.  

Personal Note:  I apologize for posting less often.  We are still in the middle of a move with some of our stuff at the new house and some still at our old house.  Once our move is completed I will be able to have time to draw and post more frequently.  

Diplodocus on hind legs feeding on a Cycad Tree

(This is an older and much less detailed drawing.  And I should have drawn the head more narrower.)

Brachiosaurus found in Utah

Argentinosaurus at Nesting Site

(Notice how this Sauropod is much more heavily built.)

Patagotitan

(This Sauropod was also much more heavily built than Barosaurus.)

Sauroposeidon and Ornithocheirus

(This was the tallest dinosaur.)

Asian Elephant coloring page

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Today's new drawing is of an Asian Elephant. 

 

Asian Elephant

Asian Elephants are native to. . . Asia.  That was rather obvious.  In some parts of the continent of Asia, the Asian Elephant is domesticated.  The Asian Elephant is also sometimes called an Indian Elephant. Asian Elephants have adapted to both forest and grassland habitats.  They have favorite forage food but have adapted to eat whatever is available.  They eat grass, leaves, and even bark. They also eat bamboo, shrubs, and wild fruit.  They are known to love cultivated sugarcane as well.   

Though smaller than their African cousins, Asian Elephants are still large.  The bull elephants or males weigh up to 8,800 lbs.  That is almost 4,000 kg.  The females weigh around 6,000 lbs or just over 2,700 kg. Asian Elephants are the largest land animal in Asia.  Asian Elephants live primarily in Southern Asia and in Southeast Asia.  They are important in the local cultures as well.  

Asian Elephants are very social animals.  The females live in a group of around 6 or 7 females who are all related.  Sometimes groups will join up with other groups for a short time to form a larger herd.  

The easiest way to tell an Asian Elephant from an African Elephant is to look for the arch in the back of the Asian Elephant.  An African Elephant has a saddle dip in its back. . . which is ironic because African Elephants are not domesticated and Asian Elephants ARE sometimes domesticated. . . although there are still between 20,000 and 40,000 Asian Elephants living in the wild. That is a 50% decrease in population over the last 75 years, so Asian Elephants are listed as an endangered species. 

By the way, did you notice the banana tree?  Fun Fact:  India is the number 1 producer of bananas in the world.  China is number two.  So the two countries in the world with the most banana production are in the continent of Asia.  

NOTE:  This drawing, in printable form, is available in printable form by clicking on the button labeled "Animals."  Then scroll down to the bottom for this new drawing.  New drawings are always on the bottom of the correct list. 

Kimmerosarus the Shark Hunter and other Plesiosaur coloring pages

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Today's new drawing is of a shark hunting plesiosaur. 

Kimmerosaurus Hunting Sharks

Kimmerosarus was a Plesiosaur that lived in the Jurassic Period.  Its fossils were found in England near the Jurassic Coast where Mary Anning made her discoveries.  There is a place (on what is now land) where long tracks were made in what HAD been the ocean floor.  It has been determined that those long trenches were made by Kimmerosaurus when the marine reptile was hunting sharks that were hiding in the sand.  

Kimmerosaurus was not a huge marine reptile.  It was only 20 feet long.  Of course, 20 feet is not exactly short.  That is about 6 meters long.  It ate squid and bony fish and if the hypothesis is correct it also hunted sharks that were hiding in the sand.  (Sharks are cartilaginous fish and they have bones made of cartilage.)  There WERE other Plesiosaurs, like Elasmosaurus, that were much longer.  Elasmosaurus was 46 feet or 14 meters long.  But Elasmosaurus had a much thinner neck proportionally in comparison to Kimmerosaurus.  Kimmerosaurs had a shorter neck as well.  Elasmosaurus may have evolved from the shorter neck Plesiosaurs like Kimmerosaurus because Kimmerosaurus was from the Jurassic Period and Elasmosaurs lived in the Cretaceous Period... that came later. 

NOTE:  This drawing, in printable form, can be found by clicking on the button labeled "Paleontology." Then scroll down to the Mesozoic portion of the list.  Scroll down further to the last entry on that part of the list for this new drawing.  I am also including 2 drawings of Elasmosaurus from earlier posts.  I am including it because that species was mentioned in this post. 

Elasmosaurus Mother and Calf

Plesiosaurus Surfacing

Tree Fairy at Her Tree coloring page

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I am updating less often for now because my wife and I are moving. 

When you get old and can't live independently it is hard to get rid of so many things...  

...and it takes a lot of time.  So I have not had much time to draw lately. 

We are moving in with our wonderful eldest daughter, her kind husband, and three cute grandkids. 

I will be back to posting new drawings more often in a couple of weeks.  

In the meantime, this new drawing is a Tree Fairy at her tree.  

Tree Fairy at Her Tree

This Tree Fairy is at her tree.  She is wearing a flying belt because she actually has more than one tree she cares for i the forest.  Fairies can fly without the flying belt, but they can fly further and faster with it.  She is seen here at mortal size.  She can use Fairy tech and magic to go to her natural 5-inch size as well. That is about 13 cm.  In fact, her Fairy Village is located under and in the roots of this tree.  The Tree Fairy here is seen in 

NOTE:  This drawing, in printable form, is found by clicking on the button labeled:  Fantasy, Myths, and Circus.  Then scroll down to the bottom of the list.  Have fun coloring!

Apatosaurus Alpha Female welcomes a new Juvenile into the Herd coloring page

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Today's new drawing is a juvenile Apatosaurus joining the herd.

Apatosaurus Alpha Female welcomes Juvenile into the Herd

If you have ever seen the excellent TV series called Walking With Dinosaurs you will remember the Sauropods laying their eggs in mass near a forest.  They then left their eggs to luck. .. like modern sea turtles do.  Then, later on, the juveniles who have survived to a certain size leave the forest and are welcome to join the herd.  (Notice that the drawing is set near the edge of the forest.)  Once a part of the herd with huge adults, the juveniles or sub-adults would have been far safer.  Adult Apatosaurs weighed around 22 tons and were around 75 feet long, or about 23 meters long.   This is much bigger than the size of the predators that preyed upon herbivores in the Jurassic Period.  Those predators would include Allosaurus and Torvosaurus. 

In the show the type of Sauropods is Diplodocus.  THIS drawing is of a heavier Sauropod called Apatosaurus.  It was commonly called Brontosaurus but it was discovered that it was named Apatosaurus first. . . so that name became official.  In Walking With Dinosaurs the females and young males make a herd and there is an Alpha Female.  This is how the modern  African elephants live.  Of course, the modern elephants care for their young from the start... and don't leave them to luck.  It is estimated that in modern sea turtles only one in a hundred survive to reproduce.  There was probably a similar mortality rate in young Sauropods.  By the way, this juvenile Apatosaurus would have been around the size of an adult African Elephant when it joined the Sauropod herd. 

Brontosaurus meant Thunder Lizard.  The thought was that it was so big that it sounded like thunder when it walked.  Apatosaurus means Deceptive Lizard because Marsh, the famous paleontologist who found it, thought that some of its bones looked deceptively like bones from a huge type of marine reptile called a Mosasaur.  

NOTE:  This drawing, in printable form, can be found by clicking on the button labeled:  Paleontology. Then scroll down to the bottom of the list to find the title of this new printable drawing.  New drawings are always at the bottom of the correct list on this blog.  Next, click on the title and the drawing will come up in printable form. By the way, the drawing is under the Paleontology button and in the part of the list labeled "Animals from the Mesozoic."

 Personal Note:  I also want to mention that my wife and I are in the middle of packing to move.  We are both older and having some major health issues so we are moving in with our eldest daughter.  Our adult kids (all our kids are adults and no longer kids) have been coming over to help us pack.  So has a niece and her husband.  I am not having much time to draw so I am drawing less and updating more.  Even the packing I am doing myself is causing me a lot of pain in my messed up trachea.  So, please be patient.  I will be drawing more often by next week.  

Keannia the Tooth Fairy coloring page

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Today's new drawing is of one of the Tooth Fairies. 

Keannia one of the Tooth Fairies

Some Fairies choose to become Tooth Fairies.  There are actually many many tooth fairies.  They can use their advanced magic and tech to go to any size to get to the tooth they are seeking.  They sometimes will magically enlarge the tooth or magically shrink it.  They conjure up cash for the child who lost the baby tooth and leave the cash under the pillow.  

Notice that Keannia is wearing a flying belt.  Fairies can fly without the flying belt, but they can fly further and faster with their flying belt.  For this reason, Keannia is wearing a flying belt.  She has to travel many miles (or kilometers) in her job as a Tooth Fairy. 

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Zebra on the African Savannah coloring page

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Today's new drawing is a Zebra in the Serengeti.

Zebra on the African Savannah

Zebras are closely related to horses and asses.  So Zebras are a type of equine.  They have distinctive black and white stripes that may help with predator evasion.   There is also evidence that the stripes provide some protection from biting flies.  They live in smaller herds and migrate in large herds and their migration is one of the biggest of all land animals in the world.  

Zebras do live on the savannah or grasslands of Africa.  But some also live in the mountains, forests, and shrublands. They live in Eastern and Southern Africa. 

There are three species of zebra with the Mountain Zebra being smaller at around 7 feet 8 inches long (2.4 meters long).  Grevy's Zebra is the largest at around 8 feet 11 inches (2.7 meters long).  Zebras are around 5 feet (1,5 meters tall) from shoulder to bottom of the hooves.  There is also a species of Plains Zebra.   Here are the weights or masses of the three different species of zebra:  

Plains Zebra:  880 lbs.

Grevy's Zebra 850 lbs.

Mountain Zebra 620 lbs. 

Zebras can fight back by biting and kicking but they will also run when threatened.  Both lions and hyenas prey on zebras.  Zebras also are vulnerable to crocodiles when near the water. 

PERSONAL NOTE:  We are in the process of moving and so I may be posting a bit less.  Packing the house etc. is taking a lot of time and causing me quite a bit of pain in my messed up trachea.  I just had some major dental work and I drew this zebra while recovering.  I was able to avoid taking pain medications by distracting myself by drawing the zebra.  

NOTE:  Now, about the zebra drawing.  .  .  .  It can be found, in printable form, by clicking on the button labeled:  "Animals,"  Remember to scroll down to the bottom of the list because new drawings are found at the bottom of the lists of printable drawings.  

Groundhog and a Chickadee for Groundhog Day coloring page

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Today is Groundhog Day!

So I drew a groundhog, although I put it in an early fall setting instead of a winter setting. 

Groundhog in the Early Fall with a Black-Capped Chickadee

The groundhog is also known as a woodchuck.  It is basically a large ground squirrel.  It is also a large rodent.  (All squirrels are rodents.)  Groundhogs are between 16.5 and 27 inches long.  That is between 42 and 68.5 cm. long. 

A groundhog is also called, in different parts of North America, several different names:  groundhog, woodchuck, chuck, wood-shock, ground pig, thick-wood badger, whistle pig, whistler, Canada marmot, monax, moonack, weenusk, red monk, land beaver, and siffleux.  The last one is from Quebec and it is in French.   

Here in America the Groundhog Day tradition says that if the groundhog sees his shadow he will be scared and go back into his burrow for another six weeks and we will have another six weeks of winter.  IF he does NOT see his shadow we will have an early spring.  

The chickadee is a "Black-Capped Chickadee."  It has a very wide range from Alaska to Pennsylvania. They live primarily in more northern areas, however they do live as far south as Southern Utah and Northern New Mexico.  The black markings on the head make it look like it is wearing a hat.  Hence the name, "Black-Capped Chickadee."  They are only about 5 or so inches long.  That is about 12 cm.  

The tree is in the drawing is a small tree.  I decided to draw the animals in the fall instead of the winter. 

This drawing will be found, in printable form, by clicking on the button labeled "Animals." or clicking on the button labeled "Bird."  And, of course, it is also found under the "Holidays" button.  You will need to scroll down to find the new drawing.  

Quokka in the Outback in honor of Groundhog Day coloring page

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Today's new drawing was suggested by my daughter. It is a Quokka.

This small marsupial somewhat resembles a groundhog. . . so I 

post this in honor of Groundhog Day... which is tomorrow, February 2nd. 

Quokka from the Ouback

A quokka is a cat-sized marsupial from Australia.  It is also called a Short-Tail Scrub Wallaby.  It is a plant-eater so it might be considered a herbivore, except that sometimes it will eat small animals like legless lizards and snails, so that makes it an omnivore.  It is active at night so it is nocturnal.  This animal is found off the coast of southwestern Australia on several islands. The quokka weighs between 5.5 lbs and 11 lbs.  That is 2.5 to 5 kg.  

It probably used to be just a land animal but over time it evolved the ability to climb small trees and bushes.  They are known to sleep in bushes during the day.  They are known to hop like wallabies and kangaroos, only not so far per jump. 

Quokkas babies are called joeys.  The joey is carried in their mother's pouch.  The mother quokkas sometimes will do something that is kind of weird.  If chased by a predator, like a dingo, they will sometimes drop their joey and abandon it to the predator. The baby or joey will hiss and cry out and attract the predator so the mother can escape.  So the mother quokka escapes but the joey gets eaten. (So, the mother quokka that does this is not exactly "Mother of the Year.")

The tangled grass in the picture is Spinafex.  

Quokkas are very friendly to humans and often people take selfies with them. 

This drawing, in printable form, can be found by clicking on the button labeled "Animals of Australia."  Scroll down to the bottom of the list because new drawings will be at the bottom of the correct list.