A Tyrannosaurus rex coloring page. The PDF holds two sheets: one with a small color guide and a colored thumbnail beside the drawing, and one with the line art on its own, so a child can copy the sample or invent something entirely different. The dinosaur’s name is printed along the bottom of each sheet in Japanese katakana. Free to download and print, no registration needed.
PDF (2 pages: line art with a small color guide, and plain line art)
🗣 Conversation Starters — for care activities and family time
Tyrannosaurus is a favourite with children. Do your own children or grandchildren like dinosaurs?
Have you watched any of the big dinosaur films — Jurassic Park and the ones that followed it?
If a Tyrannosaurus were alive today, what do you imagine it would feel like to stand near one?
Have you ever stood in front of a mounted dinosaur skeleton in a museum?
What does “T. rex” actually stand for?
It is short for Tyrannosaurus rex, the scientific name, usually translated as “tyrant lizard king”. The animal lived in western North America and died out around 66 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous. The film Jurassic Park is a large part of why the name is known everywhere today.
Why were the arms so short?
Nobody is certain. The usual suggestion is that an enormous head and jaws did the work of catching and holding prey, leaving the arms with less to do — though for their size they were still thickly muscled. Estimates of the bite force differ from study to study, but they all place T. rex among the hardest biters known from any land animal.
Did Tyrannosaurus have feathers?
This one is still argued over. The skin impressions found so far from Tyrannosaurus itself show small scales, but a close relative, Yutyrannus, is known from fossils with a shaggy covering of simple feathers — so some researchers think a young T. rex may have had a downy coat that it lost as it grew. Colour yours whichever way you like; nobody can correct you.
