Velociraptor the Swift Theif and other Raptor Dinosaurs coloring pages

 Hello or Hello Again!

This is Robin Lyman the artist who runs this free coloring pages blog.

I apologize for not posting for a few days but please understand 

that I am recovering from surgery that did not go very well. 

Anyway, today's new drawings are of Velociraptor.

Velociraptor without Feathers

Velociraptor with Feathers

(The Pterosaurs that are flying by in the background are Pteranodons.)

Velociraptor was a Theropod dinosaur that lived in what is now Mongolia in the Cretaceous Period.  Velociraptors grew up to 6.8 feet or 2.7 meters long and about 1.6 feet or 0.5 meters tall at the hips. Velociraptor was made famous by the impressive Jurassic Park and Jurassic World movies.  But those raptors in the movies would have been more like the size of Utahraptor.  

Velociraptors were probably pack hunters and they almost certainly had bodies covered in feathers.  Many people prefer to imagine Velociraptor as a scaly lizard-like animal, but that is probably not true.  It looked a lot like an oversized roadrunner. But Velociraptors had a mouthful of sharp teeth, not a beak. Modern birds are sometimes now called "Avian Dinosaurs."  Birds are in fact, descendants of feathered Theropod dinosaurs.

The name Velociraptor means "Swift Theif."  They could probably run at top speed between 25 - 40 miles per hour. So that is between 40 and 64 kilometers per hour.  That is pretty fast for a small dinosaur that only weighed around 100 lbs or around 45 kilograms.  Velociraptors weighed about the same as a medium-sized wolf or German Shepherd dog.  In fact, a wolf is just a bit slower than Velociraptor.  By the way, a modern roadrunner can only run at a top speed of 26 miles per hour.  In fact, that speed would only be in short spurts.  

NOTE:  This pair of drawings are found, in printable form, by clicking on the button labeled "Paleontology." and then scrolling down to the bottom of the Mesozoic Life section.  Below are some other raptor drawings of mostly Velociraptors and some other raptors including Utahraptor.  The below drawings are further up the list in the printable section of this blog. 

Velociraptor and Huge Pterosaur from the Gobi Desert

Velociraptor fluffed our for Display

Velociraptor Hunting Lessons

Velociraptor in Desert

(Guarding her eggs)

Velociraptor in the Gobi Desert

Velociraptor vs Protoceratops

(THIS really happened!)

Velociraptor with Young

Utahraptor Family

Dracoraptor a Welsh Dinosaur

Microraptor flying through the Forest

(THIS was a very Bird-like raptor and may be one of the ancestors of modern birds.)

Oviraptor at Nest

(This raptor lived at the same time and place as Velociraptor.  

The two species were probably mortal enemies.)