Natovenator the Swimming Dinosaur coloring page

 

This is my free coloring pages blog. 

There are drawings of religious drawings, plus drawings of dinosaurs, animals, military vehicles, Fairies, Mermaids, Elves, Unicorns, aircraft, birds, and drawings for many holidays.  

Today's new drawing is of a dinosaur that actually could swim.  

Natovenator the Swimming Dinosaur

Natovenator was a small Theropod dinosaur from what is now Mongolia.  It was about 18 inches or 45 cm. long.  It was a diver and a swimmer like a duck or a goose.  Natovenator has even been called a "goose-necked dinosaur.  Side note: Did you know that even goslings or baby geese can dive 40 feet underwater when they are only one day old?   And some species of ducks can dive over 65 feet down.  

This dinosaur, Natovenator, was streamlined and clearly a diver.  So you COULD call it the swimming and diving dinosaur.  It had teeth for catching and eating fish although it possibly swallowed its food whole.  But if it caught a larger fish it had the teeth to tear the fish to shreds and eat it that way. Natovenator was covered in feathers like a diving bird, but it had those teeth instead of a beak. But, of course, some dinosaurs DID have a beak.  And there is evidence that many if not most species of dinosaurs COULD swim.  In fact, Spinosaurus had an aquatic lifestyle and could also dive for fish. 

NOTE:  This drawing of Natovenator, in printable form, is found by clicking on the "Paleontology" button and scrolling down to the bottom of the list.  But you need to go to the bottom of the "Mesozoic Era" portion of the list.