Happy New Year 2023 coloring page

It is almost New Year here where we live in the Mountain Time Zone. 

I am aware that many of you already have experienced the new year hours ago. 

Happy New Year 2023

(The Old Year is beginning to disappear in magical sparkles.)

NOTE:  This drawing is found in printable form by clicking on the "Holiday" 

button and scrolling down.  

Maip macrothorax el Dinosaurio Rapaz más Grande (Spanish) Maip macrothorax the Biggest Raptor Dinosaur página para colorear

Bienvenidos a mi blog de dibujos para colorear gratis.

El nuevo dibujo de hoy es de un enorme dinosaurio rapaz de Argentina.

Se llama macrotórax de Mapa.

Soy un profesor de ciencias discapacitado.

Dibujar me ayuda a distraerme del dolor frecuente en el que me encuentro.

Hay más de 2500 dibujos para imprimir y colorear.

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Maip macrothorax el Dinosaurio Rapaz más Grande

Maip macrothorax era un dinosaurio rapaz gigantesco, el rapaz más grande jamás encontrado. Se encontró en América del Sur en el país de Argentina. Vivió hace 70 millones de años. Creció hasta 10 metros o 33 pies de largo y pesaba aorund 5 toneladas. Este dinosaurio tenía un hocico más largo que los alosaurios de tamaño similar. Pero vivió mucho después de los alosaurios.

Cuando el tipo superior de depredador terópodo, los Ablisaurios, se extinguió en América del Sur, se plantea la hipótesis de que las rapaces anteriormente pequeñas pudieron, con el tiempo, evolucionar para convertirse en los depredadores ápice más grandes de América del Sur.

Repenomamus fue el mamífero más grande del período Cretácico. Medía aproximadamente 3 pies y 3 pulgadas de largo y pesaba hasta 31 libras o 14 kilogramos. ESTE mamífero en la imagen es posiblemente un descendiente de Repenomamus porque Reponmamus vivió millones de años antes de Maip. El descubrimiento de Repenomamus muestra que los mamíferos no se hicieron enormes en la Era Mesozoica, pero tampoco todos eran del tamaño de pequeños roedores.

Maip PUEDE haber tenido plumas, o tal vez no. Sabemos que las rapaces más pequeñas e incluso un tiranosaurio de tamaño mediano tenían plumas. De hecho, un paleontólogo de la Universidad de Utah me dijo una vez que pensaba que todos los tiranosaurios tenían plumas. Quizás todos los dinosaurios rapaces también tenían plumas.

NOTA: La versión imprimible de este dibujo se encuentra haciendo clic en el botón etiquetado "Paleontología" y luego desplazándose hasta la parte inferior de la parte de la Vida Mesozoica de la lista. Luego haga clic en el título para obtener su página imprimible. De nuevo, primero haga clic en el botón etiquetado...  Paleontology.

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

 Welcome to my free coloring pages blog.  

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

It is called Maip macrothorax.

I am a disabled science teacher. 

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. 

Marine Reptiles from Australia coloring pages

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There are over 2,500 free-to-print coloring pages. 

Kronosaurus vs Plesiosaur

First of all, I want to make some terms clear.  Plesiosaurs were a type of many of Marine Reptiles from the Mesozoic Era. They did live with the dinosaurs, but they were NOT dinosaurs.  There were two main types of Plesiosaurs.  The ones with long necks were just called Plesiosaurs or Long-Neck Plesiosaurs.  Then the Plesiosaurs with short necks and huge heads were called Pliosaurs. In the drawing, the huge animal is the Pliosaur called Kronosaurus.  The Long-Neck animal is a type of Pliosaur with a particularly long neck called an Elasmosaur.  

This scene represents a recent find in Australia.  An Elasmosaur, a type of Plesiosaur was apparently attacked and had its back half bitten off.  What was found was a young Elasmosaur skeleton, including the head.  The back half of the marine reptile was missing.  It has been assumed that a Kronosaurus, a large short-necked marine reptile had bitten the poor young Elasmosaur in half.  

Many Plesiosaurr fossilized skeletons are found without a head.  It is thought that a Plesiosaur would bloat and feel with gas after death and thus float.  The result is scavengers would eat it and usually bite off the head.  But this Plesiosaur, (an Elsasmosaur to be specific) was bitten in half, and the air and other gasses in the young Plesiosaur (AKA Elasmosaur) thus sank immediately to the bottom of the ocean.  

100 million years ago the majority of Australia was underwater and thus part of the Southern Ocean.  But the Earth was warmer than with no polar ice packs.  Global cooling created the ice packs and the sea level worldwide went down.  So this fossil was found on what now is land.  

The Pterosaur is the largest Pterosaur found in Australia.  It is Thapunngaka shawi. It had a wingspan of 23 feet or 7 meters wide.  It is assumed that Thapunngaka was a piscivore or fish eater.  It had a crest on both the top and bottom of the end of its snout.  It had many sharp teeth for catching and eating fish. 

Kronosaurus was around 36 feet or about 11 meters long.  It had a huge head of around 8 feet or 2 1/2 

meters long.  It certainly was a top predator in ancient Australian waters. It was also a type of Plesiosaur but short-neck Plesiosaurs are called Pliosaurs.  

The new type of Elasmosaur or Plesiosaur has not yet been named.  It actually had a much longer neck than I drew here. (Sorry.)   This fossilized specimen that was bitten in half is estimated to have been 20 feet or around 6 meters long. 

NOTE:  This drawing, in printable form, is found by clicking on the "Paleontology" button.  Then scroll to the bottom of the "Mesozoic Life" part of the list.  Click on the title and you'll get the printable page. 

Below is another similar drawing from a previous post. . . and a drawing of some Elasmosaurs with the correct portion of neck to body length.  

Kronosaurus hunting Plesiosaurs

Elasmosaurs Mother and Calf

Elf Mother coloring page

The buttons above give you access to printable coloring pages. New drawings are at the bottom of the correct list. Today's free coloring page is of a lovely Elvish or Elf mother and her son.  

Hanawyn an Elf Mother with Her Son Glenoraborn

Yes, Elves have mothers.  This is one of those beautiful Elf Mothers with her son.  The Elvish mother is named Hanawyn and her son is Glenoraborn.  She has other children as well.  These are Wood Elves so they live in the forest.  Here we see mother and child after the son has been swimming in the river.  He is wrapped in a type of Elvish towel that has the charm to warm him up after swimming in the cool river water.

NOTE:  This drawing, in printable form, is found by clicking on the button labeled "Fantasy, Myths, and Circus."  Then scroll down to the bottom of the list for this new drawing. 

Christmas Singing Angel coloring page

Merry Christmas!  

Today's latest coloring page that you can print for coloring

is of a member of the Angelic Choir that announced the birth of our Savior.

 Christmas Singing Angel

Today at our Christmas Sunday service a beautiful young sister, with a beautiful voice and a kind spirit, sang a solo.  We were touched!  All the choir music was also very beautiful.  I love Christmas carols!  With the permission of the young sister and her parents, I drew her as a Christmas Singing Angel!  Appropriately she sang:  Angels We Have Heard On High. She SOUNDED like a Christmas Angel!

Christmas Angels would be the Heavenly Choir that sang to the shepherds to announce the birth of the Savior.  It is quite possible that those shepherds were raising sheep and Passover Lambs.  This is very interesting because Jesus was to be the ultimate sacrifice.  He died so that we could be forgiven for our sins on the conditions of repentance.  I love Him and I testify that he was and IS our Savior!

NOTE:  This drawing is of a lovely young woman.  I always want to point out that this "coloring page" type of drawing will not capture their true physical beauty.  But of course, true beauty is on the inside... in how they have nurtured a kind spirit in their life.  I briefly spoke with this young sister and she was very kind to me.  So she obviously is doing life right.  To get to the printable version of this drawing just click on the "Holidays" button and scroll to the bottom of the "Christmas" drawings section of that list.  Also, this drawing will be posted, in printable form, in the "Religious" drawings.  So click on the button labeled "Religious" and scroll to the bottom of the "New Testament" section.  New drawings are always at the bottom of the correct list.  Have fun coloring and I hope you had a very 

Merry Christmas! 

Santa at Night cartoon coloring page

Welcome to my free coloring pages blog! 

Today's new drawing is a cartoon picture of Santa at Night.

Santa at Night

I was in a copy shop many years ago.  I was an unemployed teacher at the time and I was running off copies of my resume.  I was feeling a little down.  A 4-year-old was in there with his mom.  It was December and there was a picture of Santa on the window. 

To understand why this is funny and rather touching is that we members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints believe that John the Beloved, the disciple of Jesus, was granted the gift to stay on Earth until the Savior's second coming. 

 The little boy tugged on his mother's coat and said, enthusiastically, "Mommy, I've got it!  Santa is John the Beloved."

I chuckled and then I thought about it and I was touched.  What nice thought for John the Beloved to be involved in giving gifts to good children... and even to good adults. 

This drawing is of Santa, in a cartoon form.  He is standing in the snow before his big trip.  He has his bag of toys... (magical bag of toys).  There is a wreath hanging from a tree and two small Christmas trees.  One has a star as the tree-topper and the other has a Christmas star. 

NOTE:  This drawing is found in printable form by clicking on the "Holidays" button and then scrolling to the bottom of the Christmas section.  Have fun coloring and Merry Christmas!   Oh, by the way, there are a lot of other Christmas drawings there.