Spinosaurus Coloring Page — Free Printable for Kids

A Spinosaurus coloring page. This is a free printable for kids: the tall sail runs the length of the back, the jaws are long and narrow like a crocodile’s, and the whole animal is drawn with clear outlines that hold up well in crayon or colored pencil. The PDF has two pages, a finished color version and the line art, each carrying a fact sheet in Japanese, and the dinosaur’s name is printed at the top in Japanese katakana. Download and print it; no registration required.

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What was the sail on the back of Spinosaurus for?

Temperature control and display to other Spinosaurus are the usual suggestions, and the question is still open. Some recent work argues the structure was not a thin sail at all but a fleshy hump. The spines that support it reach about 1.8 m, roughly six feet.

Was Spinosaurus bigger than Tyrannosaurus?

Longer, most likely. Estimates put Spinosaurus at 14–18 m (46–59 ft), which makes it one of the largest meat-eating dinosaurs known — though Tyrannosaurus is usually reckoned the heavier of the two. Spinosaurus lived in Cretaceous North Africa, in what is now Morocco and Egypt.

What did Spinosaurus eat?

Mostly fish, as far as anyone can tell. It kept to rivers and shorelines, and its long snout and cone-shaped teeth are close to what a crocodile uses to hold slippery prey. How much time it spent in the water — and whether it moved on all fours on land — is still debated.