Dinosaur & Dragon Coloring Pages for Children

Hello everyone.  I have not posted much for a couple of days because I am having 

a lot of post-surgical pain.  My drug of choice is drawing pictures.

Drawing distracts me from the pain. so I have been drawing a lot and not posting the drawings yet. 

So now I am going to try to post some recent drawings.  First some dinosaur and dragon drawings. 

There is some thought that the idea of dragons originated with ancient peoples 

finding dinosaur, plesiosaur, and pterosaur fossils. Then they put two and two together 

and came up with the idea for dragons. It is said that the Temple of Athena in Greece had 

a Plesiosaur skull on the altar.  That supports this theory. 

Below I will be posting the dino and dragon drawings and 

writing just a little bit about the animal.in the drawing. 

The Dino drawings are found, in printable form, by clicking on the "Paleontology" button.  

Then scroll to the bottom of the Mesozoic portion of the list. 

The Dragon drawings are found, in printable form, by clicking on the button 

labeled "Fantasy, Myths, and Circus. Again, scroll to the bottom of the list. 

Therozinosaurus searching for Food

Therozinosaurus was a dino oddity.  It was a Theropod that had evolved to eat plants.  It had huge meter-long sword-like claws for defense, but it was an herbivore.  It was feathered and it has been said that Therozinosaurus looked like a giant half-plucked turkey.  It weighed 11,000 lbs or almost 5,000 kg.  Therozinosaus were small or up to 40 feet or 12 meters long and lived in the early to late Cretaceous Period about 145-70 million years ago.  This weird type of animal lived in Asia & North America. 

Daspletosaurus at an Overlook

Daspletosaurus was probably an ancestor to T. rex.  It was a Tyrannosaur that lived 70-66 million years ago.  It appears that Daspletosaurus was an ancestor to T. rex but this smaller Tyrannosaur lived concurrently with T. rex as well.  Daspletosuaurs were up to 30 feet or 9 meters long.  It weighed up to 8,400 lbs.  That is 3,810 kg.  

Brachiosaurus with Stripes

Brachiosaurus was a large Sauropod dinosaur.  It was 82 feet or 25 meters long.  It weighed 80 metric tons.  It stood 50 feet or 22 meters tall.  It clearly feasted on leaves high up in the trees. When I was a boy it was the biggest known dinosaur.  Now other Brachiosaurs have been found that were even bigger, Griaffatitan and Sauroposeidon come to mind.  Sauroposeidon was 60 feet tall. Brachiosaurs were late Jurassic - Early Cretaceous Sauropods. 

Albertosaurus Mommy with her Chicks

Albertosaurus was a large Tyrannosaur that, like Daspletosaurus, was possible an ancestor to T. rex.  It was 30 feet long and lived 100 million to 66 million years ago. 

Mother Dragon carries her Wyrmling

If crocodiles carry their young in their mouth it makes sense that dragons would do the same and dinosaurs may have done the same as well.  One name for a baby dragon is a wyrmling.

Wyvern Dragon flies over the Kingdom

A Wyvern is a dragon with two legs and its arms attached to its wings. 

Drake Dragon flies over the Kingdom

Drakes are dragons with four legs.