Parasaurolophus Coloring Page — Free Printable for Kids

A coloring page of Parasaurolophus, the duck-billed dinosaur with the long curved crest sweeping back from its head. Four sheets come inside the PDF: line art with a small color guide, plain line art, line art with a fact list printed in Japanese, and a finished color version to compare against. Free to download and print, no registration needed.

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What was the crest on its head for?

It was hollow. The nasal passages ran up into the crest and back down again, and when researchers modelled those folded tubes — well over a metre of airway in a full-grown animal — on a computer, the result was a deep, resonant note not unlike a trombone. Calling across the herd is the usual explanation.

What kind of dinosaur was it?

A hadrosaur — one of the duck-billed plant-eaters. A broad flat beak at the front and hundreds of tightly packed grinding teeth behind it let these animals deal with tough vegetation, and the bone beds they turn up in suggest they moved in herds.

Where and when did it live?

In North America during the Late Cretaceous, around 75 million years ago, at a length of roughly 9 to 10 metres, browsing the plants of the day. Tyrannosaurus rex came later; the big tyrannosaurs sharing this landscape were earlier ones such as Gorgosaurus.