Triceratops Coloring Page — Free Printable for Kids

A Triceratops coloring page. This is a free printable for kids: the three horns, the great bony frill and the heavy body are drawn with clear, confident outlines, so children can fill the whole page with any colors they like. The PDF has three pages — the line art with a small color guide, a plain line-art sheet, and the same drawing with a fact sheet in Japanese — and the dinosaur’s name is printed along the bottom in Japanese katakana. Download it and print it at home or in class; no registration required.

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What were the three horns of Triceratops for?

Defence against large predators such as Tyrannosaurus is the usual explanation. Many palaeontologists also think the horns were used between Triceratops themselves — locking horns to settle which animal was stronger, and putting on a display to attract a mate.

What does the name Triceratops mean?

It is Greek for “three-horned face” (tri = three, keras = horn, ops = face), and the animal has exactly that: one short horn on the nose, two long ones above the eyes, and the great bony frill at the back of the skull.

Did Triceratops really live at the same time as Tyrannosaurus?

Yes. Both lived in western North America at the very end of the Cretaceous, roughly 68 to 66 million years ago, and they shared the same landscape. They seem to have met as predator and prey: Triceratops bones have been found with tyrannosaur bite marks on them.