Dinosaur Coloring Pages
Dinosaur coloring pages for kids to print and color.
Dinosaurs lived on Earth for about 165 million years, and they never completely disappeared. Every chicken, robin and penguin is a living dinosaur! You’ll find the famous ones here like T. rex and Triceratops, plus a few animals that shared their world without being dinosaurs at all.
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Favourite Dinosaurs
Brachiosaurus
Brachiosaurus means "arm lizard" because its front legs were longer than its back ones. That gave it a back that sloped like a slide and a neck that could stretch up into the treetops...
Brontosaurus
Brontosaurus means "thunder lizard". For more than a hundred years many scientists said the name was a mistake, but a big study in 2015 decided it was a real dinosaur after all...
Dilophosaurus
This cartoon Dilophosaurus gets to wear a frill, but the real one didn't have one. What it did have were two thin bony crests on top of its head, and that's what its name means: "two-crested lizard".
Spinosaurus
Spinosaurus had a long snout like a crocodile's because fish were a big part of its menu. The tall sail on its back was made of bony spines covered in skin, and scientists are still working out what it was for.
Stegosaurus
The four spikes on a Stegosaurus tail have a nickname: the thagomizer. It started as a joke in a 1982 cartoon, and scientists liked it so much that they kept using it.
Triceratops
Triceratops means "three-horned face", and the two long horns above its eyes could grow about a metre long. It also had hundreds of teeth packed in rows inside its cheeks for chewing tough plants...
Tyrannosaurus Rex
Some T. rex teeth were as long as a banana, but its arms only had two fingers each. Scientists are still arguing about what those tiny arms were for...
Tyrannosaurus Rex coloring pages
Velociraptor
The real Velociraptor was only about the size of a turkey, and it had feathers! Little bumps on a fossil arm bone from Mongolia show where they were attached...
Flying Reptiles (Pterosaurs)
Pterosaurs shared the sky with the dinosaurs, but they weren't dinosaurs themselves. They were a separate group of flying reptiles, and their wings were skin stretched out from one very long finger.
Pteranodons
Pteranodon means "wing without teeth", because it didn't have any. Its wings stretched wider than a small car is long.
Pterodactyls
Most people use "pterodactyl" for any flying reptile from the dinosaur days, but the real Pterodactylus was only about the size of a seagull. The giants with the huge wings had other names.
Quetzalcoatlus
Quetzalcoatlus was named after an Aztec feathered serpent god, which suits an animal with a wingspan about as wide as a small aeroplane. It's one of the largest flying animals ever found.
Rhamphorhynchus
Rhamphorhynchus had a long thin tail with a diamond-shaped flap on the end, a bit like the rudder on a boat. Scientists think it helped the animal steer while it swooped down to catch fish.
Prehistoric Ocean Animals
Most of the big swimmers from the dinosaur age were reptiles that breathed air, so they had to keep coming up to the surface.
Elasmosaurus
A giraffe has seven bones in its neck. Elasmosaurus had around seventy, which is why its neck was so long and bendy.
Ichthyosaurus
Ichthyosaurus looked a lot like a dolphin, but it was a reptile. Fossils show that it gave birth to live babies in the water instead of laying eggs on land.
Liopleurodon
Liopleurodon swam with four paddle-shaped flippers, flapping them a little like wings. It's often shown as a giant, but most scientists now think it was about six metres long.
Megalodon
Megalodon wasn't from the dinosaur age at all. This giant shark swam the oceans millions of years after the dinosaurs were gone, and its biggest teeth were about as long as a grown-up's hand...
Mosasaurus
Mosasaurus was named after the Meuse River in the Netherlands, where its first big skull turned up in the 1700s. Scientists think its closest living relatives are monitor lizards and snakes.
More Dinosaurs
Allosaurus
Allosaurus means "different lizard" because its backbones looked so unlike the ones scientists had seen before. It lived about 150 million years ago, long before T. rex.
Ankylosaurus
Ankylosaurus was covered in armour made of bone, and its tail ended in a heavy bony club. Scientists think one good swing could have broken an attacker's leg.
Compsognathus
Compsognathus was only about as big as a large chicken. One fossil found in Germany still has a whole lizard skeleton inside its belly, so we know what it had for its last meal.
Daspletosaurus
Daspletosaurus means “frightful lizard”. It was a cousin of T. rex that lived millions of years earlier, and some of its fossils were found in Alberta.
Dimetrodon
Dimetrodon wasn’t a dinosaur at all. It lived in the Paleozoic Era, tens of millions of years before the first dinosaurs, and it’s more closely related to mammals (that includes us!) than to any dinosaur.
Diplodocus
A Diplodocus could be around 25 metres long, but most of that length was neck and a thin whip of a tail.
Kentrosaurus
Kentrosaurus means “spiked lizard”. It was a smaller cousin of Stegosaurus, with plates on its neck that turned into long spikes down its back and tail. Its fossils come from Tanzania in East Africa.
Nodosaurus
Nodosaurus means “knobbed lizard”, named for the rows of bony bumps along its back. It had no tail club like its cousin Ankylosaurus, so armour was all it needed.
Othnielia
Othnielia was a small plant eater, only about as long as a big dog, and it probably ran on two legs. Its name honours Othniel Marsh, a fossil hunter who dug up many dinosaurs in the American West in the 1800s.
Pachycephalosaurus
Pachycephalosaurus means "thick-headed lizard", and the bone on top of its skull was up to 25 centimetres thick. Scientists still aren't sure if it used that head for bashing rivals like a ram.
Parasaurolophus
The long curved crest on a Parasaurolophus was hollow, with air tubes running through it. Scientists think it could make low booming calls, a bit like a trombone.
Torosaurus
Torosaurus had one of the biggest skulls of any land animal ever, about 2.5 metres long, which is taller than most grown-ups. Some scientists think it might just be a fully grown Triceratops, but others disagree.
More Pages
Hand Drawn Dinosaurs
It took one of our kids about a year and 20 library books to draw these dinosaurs when they were 13. Some are even labelled, and there are a few lesser-known dinosaurs mixed in too...
Hand Drawn Dinosaur coloring pages
Other Dinosaur Printables
Cavemen and dinosaurs never met, because the last big dinosaurs were gone more than 60 million years before the first people. One printable puts them together anyway, and the others include a Christmas dinosaur, graffiti art and a color by letters worksheet...
Ice Age Animals
Woolly mammoths were still around when the pyramids of Egypt were standing. A small herd survived on an Arctic island until about 4,000 years ago, long after the rest had died out...
Ice-Age Animals coloring pages