BIGGEST Raptor Dinosaur - Like a Velociraptor on Steroids - Maip macrothorax coloring page

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Today's new drawing is of a huge raptor dinosaur from Argentina. 

It is called Maip macrothorax.

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Drawing helps distract me from the frequent pain I am in. 

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Maip macrothorax the Biggest Raptor Dinosaur

Maip macrothorax was a gigantic raptor dinosaur - the biggest raptor ever found.  It was found in South America in the country of Argentina.  It lived 70 million years ago.  It grew up to 10 meters or 33 feet long and weighed aorund 5 tons. This dinosaur had a longer snout than similar sized Allosaurs.  But it lived WAY after the Allosaurs.

When the top type of Theropod predator, the Ablisaurs, went extinct in South America it is hypothesized that the previously small raptors were able, over time, to evolve to be the largest apex predators in South America. 

Repenomamus was the biggest mammal of the Cretaceous period. It was about 3 feet 3 inches long and weighed up to 31 pounds or 14 kilograms.  THIS mammal in the picture is possibly a descendant of Repenomamus because Reponmamus lived millions of years before Maip.   The discovery of Repenomamus shows that mammals did not get huge in the Mesozoic Era, but they were not all the size of small rodents either. 

Maip MAY have had feathers, or maybe not.  We DO know that the smaller raptors and even one medium sized Tyrannosaur had feathers.  In fact, a paleontologist at the University of Utah once told me that he thought all Tyrannosaurs had feathers.  Perhaps all raptor dinosaurs had feathers too. 

Since this dinosaur was found in Argentina I will be posting it in Spanish as well. 

NOTE:  The printable version of this drawing is found by clicking on the button labeled "Paleontology" and then scrolling to the bottom of the Mesozoic Life part of the list.  Then click on the title to get your printable page.  Again, first click on the button labeled... Paleontology.