Pterodactyl Coloring Pages (Free Printable PDFs)

Please enjoy our free printable Pterodactyl coloring pages for kids. These free printable coloring sheets come in a PDF format and feature a wide range of Pterodactyl pictures. They range from easy Pterodactyl coloring pages for toddlers to more difficult Pterodactyl pictures for older boys and girls. We hope they provide hours of coloring fun for your toddlers, kids, boys and girls! If you haven't found what you're looking for here, please check out our complete range of dinosaur colouring pages and fun pterodactyl facts!

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Pterodactyl Flying Over Stegosaurus Coloring Page
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Fun Pterodactyl Fact #1

The name Pterodactyl means ‘Winged Finger’ and comes from the Greek word ‘Pteron’ which means wing and the Latin word ‘Dakylos’ which means finger. Put them together and you’ve got Pterodactyl!

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Fun Pterodactyl Fact #2

Pterodactyl’s were not dinosaurs! Yes, that’s right, Pterodactyls weren’t dinosaurs at all, but enormous flying reptiles that lived at the same time as dinosaurs and became extinct at around the same time.

Pterodactyl Attacking Baby Triceratops Coloring Page
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Fun Pterodactyl Fact #3

Modern birds might have a few things in common with the Pterodactyl, they can both fly and they both have beaks, but birds didn’t descend from Pterodactyls. In fact birds today came from small, feathered dinosaurs that didn't even fly.

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Fun Pterodactyl Fact #4

Pterodactyls are the largest flying animals known to science. When a Pterodactyl spread its wings, the distance from the tip of one wing to the tip of the opposite wing could reach over 11 meters (36 feet). Wow, that’s a big bird... I mean flying reptile.

Pterodactyl vs Spinosaurus Coloring Page
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Pterodactyl Swooping Down On Velociraptor Coloring Page
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Fun Pterodactyl Fact #5

The T-Rex had hollow bones which were strong without being too heavy. Just like birds today, the tyrannosaurus could breath from air stored in its bones as well as from its lungs. Wow!

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Fun Pterodactyl Fact #6

Unlike birds, Pterodactyls didn’t have feathers on their wings. Instead, the wings of a Pterodactyl were made of stretchy skin, like the wings of a bat!

Pterodactyls Flying Over T-Rex Coloring Page
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Fun Pterodactyl Fact #7

Large Pterodactyls used hot air currents to soar high up into the sky and glide around, instead of constantly flapping their wings.

Pterodactyls Flying Past Parasaurolophus Coloring Page
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Pterodactyl Attacking Diplodocus  Coloring Page
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Fun Pterodactyl Fact #8

Pterodactyls were meat eaters. When Pterodactyls flew over the sea they would hunt fish, squid and other sea creatures. When they flew over the land Pterodactyls would catch prey like baby dinosaurs and dinosaur eggs.

Pterodactyls Hovering Over Ankylosaurus Coloring Page
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Pterodactyl vs Velociraptor Coloring Sheet
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Fun Pterodactyl Fact #9

The T-Rex had hollow bones which were strong without being too heavy. Just like birds today, the tyrannosaurus could breath from air stored in its bones as well as from its lungs. Wow!

Pterodactyl Ambushed By Velociraptor Coloring Sheet
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Fun Pterodactyl Fact #10

Looking at fossil prints scientists have been able to discover that Pterodactyls walked on all fours when they were on land like vampire bats. That’s very different from birds which walk on 2 legs.

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