National Velociraptor Awareness Day coloring pages

 

In honor of today being 

National Velociraptor Awareness Day

I drew another Velociraptor coloring page drawing. 

Velociraptor & Protoceratops Face Off

Velociraptor was a smaller-sized dinosaur. It lived in what is now the Gobi Desert 70 million years ago.  Although that desert was a bit wetter back then.  It was a carnivore and probably a pack hunter.  It was only 6 feet or 1.8 meters long.  It weighed around 100 lbs or 45 kg... about the weight of a wolf or large dog.  It almost certainly was covered in feathers, although it could not fly per se.  It could possibly dive at prey and open its "wings" to help guide it in its attack.  It would have to be on higher ground to do this.  Also, Velociraptors had a killing claw on each foot.  They could either stab or slash although some evidence says that it did more stabbing than slashing.  

I have to add that although I love the Jurassic Park and Jurassic World movies, they actually coincidentally had a Utahraptor, not a Velociraptor.  They liked the name of Velociraptor but they wanted it to be bigger.  Then as the film was being produced and filmed in Hollywood, Utahraptor fossilized bones were found in Eastern Utah.  Utahraptor is pretty much the same size as Velociraptor in the movies.  But in reality, Velociraptors and Utahraptors probably had feathers and looked like oversized roadrunner birds.  

This drawing shows Velociraptor facing off against a herbivore called Protoceratops.  Protoceratops was a forerunner of the horned Ceratopsian dinosaurs.  Protoceratops were about the size of a modern sheep.

The huge pterosaur seen off in the background also lived in the Gobi Desert area 70 mya.  It is a recent discovery and had a wingspan of around 36 feet or 11 meters wide.  It may have eaten baby dinosaurs. 

NOTE:  This new drawing is found, in printable form, is found by clicking on the button labeled "Paleontology."  Then you need to scroll down to the bottom of the Mesozoic Life section. New drawings are at the bottom of the list. 

I am also adding some other older coloring page drawings of Velociraptor and Utahraptor below.  These are found in the printable form further up the Paleontology list. 

Velociraptor without Feathers

Velociraptor with Feathers

Utahraptor Family

Velociraptor in the Gobi Desert

Velociraptor vs Protoceratops

(Two dino fossilized individuals were found grappling with each other like this.)

Velociraptor Hunting Lessons

Utahraptor