13 Pterodactyl Coloring Pages to Print for Free!

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Drawing of a pterodactyl gliding over an island colored with colored pencils — Colored by the Coloring Together artists. See gallery.

Do you like how this pterodactyl drawing turned out? It was so much fun to color! Do you know why? Because we put our whole heart into bringing it to life. No matter which coloring page you pick, what matters is putting all your love and care into it.

The best way to make your drawings look amazing is to use the materials you like the most. Plus, trying different techniques is a great way to grow as an artist. Come on! The pterodactyl coloring pages are waiting for a great artist to fill them with color.

If you are here it is because you love prehistoric animals and the reptiles that ruled the sky. That is why we gathered pterodactyls flying, gliding and resting, so you can have fun while getting to know one of the most famous flying reptiles in the world.

And when you finish, remember that here at Coloring Together we have a very special gallery, like a museum of prehistoric art, where we show the best drawings people send us. Go ahead and share your art so everyone can see it!

Pterodactyl coloring pages

Why color pterodactyl pictures?

If you like prehistoric animals, you have surely heard of pterodactyls. They were flying reptiles that lived in the age of the dinosaurs and ruled the sky with their huge skin wings. Although many people think they were dinosaurs, they were really pterosaurs, a different family.

Coloring pterodactyls is a fun way to travel back in time. While you choose the colors of their wings and crest, you learn what life was like millions of years ago, when these giants glided over seas and mountains.

We also added lots of fun facts about pterodactyls that you may not have known. So you learn new things while doing a relaxing and creative activity. Let's get to it!

Learn while coloring Pterodactyl

Pterodactyls were among the first animals with bones that could fly with their own wings, long before birds. They soared through the sky when no bird existed yet!
The word pterodactyl comes from Greek and means winged finger. It is called that because its wing was held up by one very long finger on its hand.
The first pterodactyl ever discovered was small, about the size of a seagull. Not all flying reptiles were giants!
They had hollow bones inside, just like today's birds. That is why they were so light and could stay up in the air.
Even though they lived alongside the dinosaurs, pterodactyls were not dinosaurs: they were flying reptiles called pterosaurs, a kind of cousin of the dinos.
The biggest pterosaurs, like Quetzalcoatlus, were as tall as a giraffe and opened their wings more than 10 meters wide. They were the largest flying animals in history!
Pterodactyls lived during the Mesozoic Era and went extinct about 66 million years ago, at the same time as the dinosaurs.
Many pterodactyls had a bony crest on their head. Scientists think they used it to show off and recognize each other.
Some pterodactyls had lots of thin, pointy teeth to catch slippery fish, and others had no teeth at all.
When they were on the ground, pterodactyls walked on all fours and folded their wings like a closed umbrella.
The first pterodactyl fossil was found in Germany in 1784, even before the word dinosaur was invented!
Their wings had no feathers: they were made of stretched skin between the body and a very long fourth finger, like a bat's wings.
Baby pterodactyls hatched from eggs. Scientists believe they could fly very soon after coming out of the shell.