Young T. rex vs a Wildfire - and a few other Tyrannosaur coloring pages

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Today's new drawing is of a young Tyrannosaurus rex facing off with a wildfire. 

Young T. rex vs a Wildfire

Tyrannosaurus rex, also called T. rex, was the last and biggest of the Tyrannosaurs.  There were many Tyrannosaurs throughout the Cretaceous Period of the Mesozoic Era.  The Tyrannosaurs were the top predators of the Late Cretaceous Period in both North America and Asia.  Their distinguishing features include two-digit hands, a large skull, a powerful bite, & many serrated somewhat banana-shaped teeth. 

Some of the types of Tyrannosaurs include... Nanotyrannus, Lythronax, Teratophoneus, Nanuqsaurus, Bistaheiversor, Tarbosaurus, Albertosaurus, Zhuchengtyrannus, Gorgosaurus, Daspletosaurus,  Albertosaurus, and of course Tyrannosaurus rex. 

Tyrannosaurus rex was the largest of the Tyrannosaurs and was up to 44 feet or over 13 meters long and weighed possibly as much as 9 tons.  That means they COULD get so big that they would have been quite slow.  Some paleontologists have hypothesized in the past that T. rex was a scavenger, not a predator.  

Then young Tyrannosaurs were found.  (fossils of Tyrannosaurs who died young)  These fossils showed that the younger Tyrannosaurs were built much lither and could have been the prey chasers of the pack of Tyrannosaurs.  The discovery of more than one family group of Tyrannosaurs - that obviously died and therefore lived together - has boosted the theory that Tyrannosaurs were pack hunters.  

In fact, the evidence is so obvious that Tyrannosaurs lived in groups that there is now a term for a pack of Tyrannosaurs.  They are called a "Terror of Tyrannosaurs."  IF you are a birder or into Nature and Animals you might know that there are specific terms for a group of some species.  For instance... a murder of crows.... a banditry of chickadees... a pod of whales... a pride of lions... a school of fish... a convocation of eagles... a pack of wolves... etc.  So a terror of Tyrannosaurs makes perfect sense!  

This evidence of pack behavior, and the way younger Tyrannosaurs were lighter and obviously faster runners... has some paleontologists thinking that Tyrannosaurs WERE hunters and not scavengers.  Yes, they probably did not pass up a free meal.  But now it is also thought that young members of the terror would flush out the prey species and chase them into an ambush where the huge Alpha male and Alpha female of the terror waited to ambush and kill the prey.  

This drawing was done using a new toy T. rex that I recently purchased for my grandson.  Below is a photo of this toy.  I did not draw it exactly, but it WAS my basic model for the drawing.  My grandson got ahold of the page when I was not finished drawing but had to run to the store.  When I got back home my grandson had drawn scribbles on the bottom that looked a bit like fire, so I decided to enhance his lines and make this a photo of Young T. rex vs a Wildfire. 

If you want you could decide my "fire" is actually just more grass in from of the dinosaur.  So you would color the "grass" near the T. rex a beige color to represent dry grass. There WERE several species of grass in the Late Cretaceous.  That was not previously known but paleontologists found five species of grass seed in Hadrosaur coprolites.  That means duck-bill dinosaur droppings.  Actually, if you decide to color this as a wildfire up at the front of the page... then you could color the "grass" beige and then add your own orange or/and red-orange fire.  Or you could consider the lines at the front to be fire.  Then you'd color them orange or red-orange etc.  Also... I did not add smoke so if you are coloirn in fire then use a pencil or gray crayon to color in fire.  You could color the smoke in last after you've colored the dinosaur and all the rest of the picture.  Have fun figuring it out.  Again, I did NOT draw in any smoke because I did not know how you plan to color this drawing.  

The Pterosaur in the drawing is a Pteranodon.  

NOTE:  This drawing is available, in printable form, by clicking on the button labeled: Paleontology. Then scroll down to the bottom of the Mesozoic part of the list to see the title of this drawing.  If you click on the button you will get a printable page that you can print and color.  

T. rex toy from Target

Below are a few other Tyrannosaur drawings from previous posts.  

There are actually a LOT of Tyrannosaur drawings to be found in the 

Paleontology section of this blog.  Just click on the Paleontology button for the printable drawings.  

By the way, it is thought and even proven that some types of 

Tyrannosaurs had feathers or protofeathers. 

To find any of the below drawings... in printable form, 

you need to look further up the list of Paleontology printables.  

Teratophoneus sub-adult Feeding

Teratophoneus Mother and Chick at an Overlook

Albertosaurus by a Stream

Lythronax with Protofeathers

Tyrannosaurus rex Sleeping

Daspleteosaurus on the Prowl

T. rex baby

(This is a very simple drawing that was drawn for small children to color.)

T. rex Chick in Nest

T. rex Mother with Chick in Her Mouth

Tyrannosaurus rex ignoring a Volcano while Hunting

Tyrannosaurus rex with Blood Python Pattern

Feathered Tyrannosaurus rex

Lythronax the Gore King