Stegosaurus Pictures & Facts - The Dinosaur Database
Stegosaurus was a herbivore. It lived in the Jurassic period and inhabited Europe and North America. Its fossils have been found in places such as Utah, Xinjiang (China) and South Dakota.
Among the most famous of all dinosaurs, the Stegosaurus is recognized chiefly for the two rows of armored plates that ran down the length of its spine from its head to the tip of its tail. It had a narrow, tapering head held close to the ground, and its forelegs were considerably shorter than its hindlegs.
As with the other more popular dinosaurs, the depiction of the Stegosaurus in art has changed considerably over the years as more and more new information has come to light. In early illustrations, the gait of the Stegosaurus was more squat, and it carried its tail low to the ground; it is now known that it walked with its hind legs held straighter, and its tail high in the air.
Newer illustrations will sometimes incorporate these changes in understanding.
The plates that line the Stegosaurus’ back have inspired much debate as to their function. While they were initially thought to serve as armored protection for the creature’s back, some alternative theories have recently been proposed, ranging from an aesthetic display to heat regulation.
Quick facts about Stegosaurus:
Existed from Upper Jurassic Epoch to Lower Cretaceous Epoch
Lived in a terrestrial habitat
Was a herbivore
Reproduced by laying eggs
75 different specimens have been found by paleontologists
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Did T. rex Eat Stegosaurus?
Katie, the Museum’s own paleontology whiz who is also a published author, answers dinosaur questions we've received, from feathered fossils to the swimming Spinosaurus
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ERIC: From the Museum of Science Boston, this is Pulsar, a podcast where we answer questions from you, our audience. I'm your host, Eric. My guest today is Katie, a paleontologist and educator at the museum. Katie, thanks for joining me.
KATIE: Thanks for having me.
ERIC: So our first question to start off, is a good one that comes from Taylor and it is, what does the word dinosaur mean?
KATIE: Well, the word dinosaur means terrible lizard. But the person who came up with that word never actually referenced it being terrible lizard. He actually referenced it being fearfully great, but if you actually take the Greek meaning of it, it is terrible lizard. I kinda like fearfully great though a little bit better, because they're not technically lizards.
ERIC: So that reason to a question we've got a lot, are dinosaurs related to birds?
KATIE: Yes, absolutely. Birds are dinosaurs. Not all dinosaurs are birds but birds are dinosaurs. I like to compare to mammals and whales. Whales are a type of mammal but not all mammals are whales.
And whales are a really weird type of mammal like you could easily if you just came as an alien spaceship to this planet and looked at all the animals that lived here. You could decide, whales look way too different from other mammals so we don't count them as mammals but obviously they are.
And that's the same with birds and dinosaurs. We now know that birds do fall into the dinosaur category. Some people think like, but they're so little, they're not what I think of when I hear the word dinosaurs well, though, scientifically speaking, they have all the hallmarks of being a dinosaur.
They have the genetics of being a dinosaur. And so they are.
ERIC: So if some of the dinosaurs survived the extinction and then evolved over 65 million years to look like the birds we have today.
KATIE: Exactly. In fact, a lot of them already were looking like the birds we had today back during that extinction event.
ERIC: So related to that, if they looked like that, did they have feathers? We've got a lot of questions about dinosaur feathers and also how we know that they had feathers, since we usually think of only finding the fossils of their bones.
KATIE: Yes, so not all dinosaurs had feathers, but a number of them did and the ones that are surviving today certainly do.
The feathers we found in the fossil record tend to be from impressions so feathers themselves don't fossilize very well. Usually only hard substances like bone can actually mineralize and fossilize into what we classically think of as a fossil. But there are impressions you can find, people find footprints, they find skin impressions, they find feather impressions in the rock.
And the most famous is probably Archaeopteryx, which has a beautiful array of feathers on multiple different fossil discoveries. But you can also find feathers on number of other different extinct dinosaurs. So one of my favorites is Microraptor, which show that there were feathers on its arms and legs that were long.
It almost looked like it had four wings to fly around, very cool. And you can even find feather evidence on bones. So it's not just always the impressions. Some bones have something called quill knobs, which are little tiny bumps along them to show where feathers would have attached.
And actually, velociraptor is a great example of a dinosaur that had quill knobs on its bones.
ERIC: So next question is from Lydia. What is the biggest dinosaur egg?
KATIE: Yeah, I love this question because it's probably not what you would expect. At least the biggest egg that we know of from a dinosaur, for sure is the elephant bird.
So this is something that lived relatively recently, it went extinct a couple of thousand years ago. And this was a type of bird that was absolutely huge, it was almost ten feet tall. It lived in Madagascar and its egg would have been over a foot long and weighed over 20 pounds.
So it was a huge egg. But you think to yourself, well, what about the really giant dinosaurs of the past, they had to have bigger eggs than that. And maybe they did. We just haven't found great evidence of larger eggs than that. The sauropod of the long neck dinosaurs the biggest eggs we found there were about 12 inches, the elephant bird's is 13 inches.
And those were animals that could get not just 10 feet tall, but the biggest sauropod, Argentinosauros, was 110 feet long. So it's a little interesting that even the giant dinosaurs still seem to have relatively small eggs compared to modern birds.
ERIC: So we got a question from Liam that I love, did T. rex eat Stegosaurus?
KATIE: Uh-huh, no. I love that question too. There were some really cool carnivores that went after Stegosaurus during the time it lived which was during the Jurassic period. So about 150 maybe until 255 million years ago. That's when Stegosaurus was a species of dinosaur that walked around the Earth.
But T. rex didn't live until about 80 million years ago, up until about 65 million years ago in the great extinction event. So there's about just as much time between us and T. rex as there is between T. rex and Stegosaurus, so they never would have met each other.
ERIC: That's something we really don't think about. We think about the world of dinosaurs being a long time ago, and then all the dinosaurs were there, but they were on the earth for a really long time, right?
KATIE: Absolutely. Yeah, they first appeared about 230 million years ago, and they're still around now.
So we have a lot of dinosaur history to look at.
ERIC: We got a couple different questions from people asking about Spinosaurus. And that was a dinosaur that was in the news last month, there was a new study or new fossil found, so can you tell us a little bit about that?
KATIE: Yes, Spinosaurus is so cool. So Spinosaurus is this large two legged kind of dinosaur that was about 50 feet long. It was a carnivore, and it lived also in the Cretaceous, but a little earlier than the Tyrannosaurus rex. So, little different time period. This is one of my favorite dinosaurs because it has such a cool history just with paleontology.
The original fossils were found about 100 years ago, but were stored in a museum that got bombed during World War Two. And so the fossils were just totally destroyed. But everyone really liked this dinosaur because it was cool it had a possible sale on its back, it looked really different than some of the other dinosaurs we had found and it was gigantic, so cool but then destroyed.
So paleontologists worked really hard to find new fossils and in recent years they have. So the fossils they've been finding suggested that it could be partially aquatic or at least a fish. The teeth that had looked like it was great for catching fish, kind of crocodilian teeth. Ring bones suggested that it'd be good for swimming.
They've been discovering more and more about those recently, but the newest find is about its tail. So the most complete Spinosaurus tail ever has been found and those tail bones are well tall for lack of a better word for that. They're kind of wide but not in the horizontal way in a vertical way like a tadpole tail.
They're very long neural spines. And it forms a paddle like structure, which tells us that, It could use that in the water to swim. Now why is that so cool? Because most dinosaurs don't swim. There are other really cool prehistoric reptiles that could swim around like Ichthyosaurs and Plesiosaurs, but dinosaurs not so much until we got the birds that could dive and swim.
But Spinosaurus seems to have all the adaptations in place to be a swimming dinosaur: a 50 foot long crocodilian teeth filled, fierce thing in the water. It's so cool.
ERIC: So our final question comes from Eamon, do you believe there are many dinosaur types that we haven't discovered yet?
KATIE: Yes definitely, we find new dinosaur fossils all the time. One of the coolest latest finds was this eenie bitty tiny dinosaur that was actually trapped in amber and it was so tiny that researchers looking at it realized they didn't really have any groups of dinosaurs to directly compared it to.
It's kind of its own new thing which tells us there's a whole new group of dinosaurs we really haven't even begun to discover maybe because they're so small. So you really never know what's next. But knowing how many dinosaurs are around today, with the birds, there's about 10,000 different species that are alive today versus how many extinct ones that we found, which is about 1,000.
And knowing that they've been around this earth since 230 million years ago, you could do the math. We've got a lot more species to find.
ERIC: Katie, thanks so much for talking to us and answering our dinosaur questions today.
KATIE: Of course, I love talking dinosaurs. Thanks so much for having me.
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ERIC: Desde el Museo de Ciencias de Boston, esto es Pulsar, un pódcast donde respondemos a las preguntas de nuestra audiencia. Soy su presentador, Eric. Mi invitada de hoy es Katie, paleontóloga y educadora del museo. Katie, gracias por acompañarme.
KATIE: Gracias por invitarme.
ERIC: Para empezar, nuestra primera pregunta es una buena pregunta que hace Taylor y qué dice, ¿qué significa la palabra dinosaurio?
KATIE: Bueno, la palabra dinosaurio significa lagarto terrible. Pero la persona que inventó esa palabra nunca se refirió a que fuera un lagarto terrible. En realidad se refería a que era tremendamente grande, pero si se toma el significado del griego, es lagarto terrible. Me gusta algo así como "tremendamente grande", aunque un poco mejor, porque técnicamente no son lagartos.
ERIC: Esa es la razón de una pregunta que se nos plantea a menudo, ¿los dinosaurios están relacionados con las aves?
KATIE: Sí, por supuesto. Las aves son dinosaurios. No todos los dinosaurios son aves, pero las aves son dinosaurios. Me gusta comparar esto con los mamíferos y las ballenas, las ballenas son un tipo de mamífero, pero no todos los mamíferos son ballenas.
Y las ballenas son un tipo de mamífero muy raro, como podrías ver fácilmente si vinieras como una nave espacial alienígena a este planeta y vieras todos los animales que han vivido aquí, podrías determinar que las ballenas se ven muy diferentes de otros mamíferos, así que no las contamos como tales, pero obviamente lo son.
Y lo mismo ocurre con las aves y los dinosaurios. Ahora sabemos que las aves corresponden a la categoría de los dinosaurios. Algunas personas dicen, como son tan pequeñas no pienso en ellas cuando escucho la palabra dinosaurios. Bueno, desde el punto de vista científico, tienen todas las características de los dinosaurios, tienen la genética de un dinosaurio, y lo son.
ERIC: ¿Así que algunos de los dinosaurios sobrevivieron a la extinción y luego evolucionaron durante 65 millones de años hasta parecerse a las aves que conocemos hoy en día?
KATIE: Exactamente. De hecho, muchos de ellos ya se parecían a las aves que conocemos hoy durante esa extinción.
ERIC: En relación con eso, si se veían así, ¿tenían plumas?
Nos hacemos muchas preguntas sobre las plumas de los dinosaurios y también sobre cómo se sabe que las tenían, ya que normalmente solo pensamos en encontrar los fósiles de sus huesos.
KATIE: Sí, no todos los dinosaurios tenían plumas, pero varios de ellos las tenían y los que sobreviven hoy en día sin duda las tienen.
Las plumas que encontramos en el registro fósil suelen ser de impresiones, por lo que las plumas en sí no se fosilizan muy bien. Por lo general, solo las sustancias duras como el hueso pueden mineralizarse y fosilizarse para convertirse en lo que tradicionalmente consideramos un fósil. Pero se pueden encontrar impresiones, se encuentran huellas, impresiones de piel y de plumas en la roca.
Y el más famoso probablemente sea el Archaeopteryx, que tiene un hermoso conjunto de plumas en varios descubrimientos de fósiles diferentes. Pero también se pueden encontrar plumas en otros dinosaurios extintos. Uno de mis favoritos es el Microraptor, que muestra que tenía plumas largas en los brazos y patas. Casi parecía como si tuviera cuatro alas para volar, genial.
E incluso puedes encontrar indicios de plumas en los huesos, así que no se trata solo de las impresiones. Algunos huesos tienen algo llamado protuberancias de plumas, que son pequeños bultos que muestran dónde se habrían unido las plumas. Y en realidad, el Velociraptor es un gran ejemplo de un dinosaurio que tenía protuberancias de plumas en los huesos.
ERIC: La próxima pregunta es de Lydia. ¿Cuál es el huevo de dinosaurio más grande?
KATIE: Sí, me encanta esta pregunta porque probablemente no es lo que te esperarías. Al menos el huevo más grande de dinosaurio que conocemos, seguro que es el de un ave elefante. Se trata de un animal que vivió hace relativamente poco tiempo, se extinguió hace un par de miles de años.
Y era un tipo de ave que era absolutamente enorme, medía casi tres metros de altura. Vivía en Madagascar y su huevo tenía más de un pie de largo y pesaba más de 20 libras. Era un huevo enorme. Pero si piensas, ¿y qué hay de los dinosaurios realmente grandes del pasado?
Tenían que tener huevos más grandes que esos. Y quizás lo eran. No hemos encontrado evidencias de que tuvieran huevos más grandes que esos. Del saurópodo, de los dinosaurios de cuello largo, los huevos más grandes que encontramos eran de unas 12 pulgadas, y el del ave elefante es de 13 pulgadas.
Y esos eran animales que no solo podían alcanzar 10 pies de altura, sino que el saurópodo más grande de los Argentinosaurus, medía 110 pies de largo. Es bastante interesante que incluso los dinosaurios gigantes parecen tener huevos relativamente pequeños en comparación con las aves modernas.
ERIC: Tenemos una pregunta de Liam que me encanta, ¿el T. rex se comía al Estegosaurio?
KATIE: Ja ja, no. A mi también me encanta esa pregunta. Hubo algunos carnívoros realmente fantásticos que fueron tras el Estegosaurio durante la época en que vivió, que fue durante el periodo Jurásico, que fue hace unos 150 a 255 millones de años, eso era cuando el Estegosaurio era una especie de dinosaurio que caminaba por la Tierra.
Pero el T. rex no vivió hasta hace unos 80 millones de años, hasta hace unos 65 millones de años, en la gran extinción. Por lo tanto, pasó tanto tiempo entre nosotros y el T. rex como entre el T. rex y el Estegosaurio, así que nunca se habrían conocido.
ERIC: Eso es algo en lo que realmente no pensamos. Pensamos que el mundo de los dinosaurios fue hace mucho tiempo, y entonces todos los dinosaurios existían, pero estuvieron en la Tierra durante mucho tiempo, ¿verdad?
KATIE: Por supuesto. Aparecieron por primera vez hace unos 230 millones de años, y todavía están entre nosotros.
Tenemos una larga historia de los dinosaurios para estudiar.
ERIC: Tenemos un par de preguntas de la gente sobre los Espinosaurios, un tipo de dinosaurio que estuvo en las noticias el mes pasado, pues hubo un nuevo estudio o se encontró un nuevo fósil, ¿puede contarnos un poco sobre eso?
KATIE: Sí, el Espinosaurio es fantástico. El Espinosaurio es este tipo de dinosaurio grande de dos patas que medía unos 50 pies de largo. Era carnívoro, y también vivió en el Cretáceo, pero un poco antes que el Tiranosaurio rex, un periodo de tiempo ligeramente diferente. Este es uno de mis dinosaurios favoritos porque tiene una historia fantástica relacionada con la paleontología.
Los fósiles originales se encontraron hace unos 100 años, pero se almacenaron en un museo que fue bombardeado durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, y los fósiles fueron totalmente destruidos. Pero a todo el mundo le gustaba mucho este dinosaurio porque era genial, tenía una posible vela en el lomo, se veía muy diferente a algunos de los otros dinosaurios que se habían encontrado y era gigantesco, muy interesante, pero fue destruido.
Así que los paleontólogos trabajaron intensamente para encontrar nuevos fósiles y en los últimos años lo han conseguido. Los fósiles que han encontrado sugieren que podría ser parcialmente acuático o al menos un pez. Sus dientes, aparentemente excelentes para atrapar peces, eran como los de un cocodrilo. Los huesos en forma de anillo sugirieron que sería apto para la natación.
Recientemente han descubierto cada vez más cosas sobre ellos, pero el último hallazgo es sobre su cola. Se ha encontrado la cola más completa de un Espinosaurio y esos huesos de la cola son muy altos, a falta de una palabra mejor para definirlos. Son algo anchos, pero no en dirección horizontal, sino vertical, como la cola de un renacuajo, son espinas neurales muy largas, y forman una estructura parecida a una paleta, lo que nos dice que podrían usarla en el agua para nadar.
¿Por qué es tan interesante? Porque la mayoría de los dinosaurios no nadan. Hay otros reptiles prehistóricos realmente interesantes que sabían nadar, como los Ictiosaurios y Plesiosaurios pero, por lo que sabemos, los dinosaurios no tanto. Las aves podían bucear y nadar, pero el Espinosaurio parece que tenía todas las adaptaciones para ser un dinosaurio nadador, un cocodrilo de 50 pies de largo con unos dientes feroces en el agua.
Es fantástico.
ERIC: Nuestra última pregunta viene de Eamon, ¿crees que hay muchos tipos de dinosaurios que aún no hemos descubierto?
KATIE: Sí, sin duda, encontramos nuevos fósiles de dinosaurios todo el tiempo. Uno de los últimos hallazgos más interesantes fue este pequeño dinosaurio que estaba atrapado en el ámbar y era tan pequeño que los investigadores que lo observaron se dieron cuenta de que no tenían ningún grupo de dinosaurios con el que compararlo directamente.
Es una especie de novedad que nos dice que hay todo un nuevo grupo de dinosaurios que ni siquiera hemos empezado a descubrir, tal vez porque son muy pequeños. Realmente nunca sabes qué será lo próximo. Pero sabiendo cuántos dinosaurios existen hoy en día, con las aves, hay unas 10 mil especies diferentes vivas hoy en día, frente a las extintas que encontramos, que son unas 1000.
Y sabiendo que están en el planeta desde hace 230 millones de años, podrías hacer las cuentas. Tenemos muchas más especies por encontrar.
ERIC: Katie, muchas gracias por hablar con nosotros y responder a nuestras preguntas sobre los dinosaurios hoy.
KATIE: Por supuesto, me encanta hablar de dinosaurios. Gracias por invitarme.
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30 ways to draw different dinosaurs
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How to draw a Tyrannosaurus Rex
Frame: @EasyPicturesToDraw / YouTube
What you need
Paper;
pencil or marker.
How to draw a dinosaur
Draw a small slash down to the left. Drop it down and turn to the right. This will be the front of the animal's mouth.
Frame: @EasyPicturesToDraw / YouTube
Draw a smooth checkmark at the top. Under it draw an oval eye, and inside it is a dark pupil. Draw a slash down from the left corner of the eye.
Frame: @EasyPicturesToDraw / YouTube
At the top of the mouth, add a small drop nostril. Draw a horizontal line above the lower border of the mouth, lift it up and draw a small corner at the end.
Frame: @EasyPicturesToDraw / YouTube
Finish the head by drawing a smooth line at an angle from the top of the check mark. Extend the lower border of the mouth slightly and round the line upwards. Add some triangular teeth to the dinosaur.
Frame: @EasyPicturesToDraw / YouTube
Draw a smooth sloping line from the lower right edge of the head - this will be the back of the animal. Round it and bring it up to the right, depicting part of the tail.
Frame: @EasyPicturesToDraw / YouTube
From the mouth down, draw a small line. At the bottom, add a perpendicular rounded line. Draw a stroke up from its right edge. From the left edge down, draw two checkmarks - dinosaur fingers. Draw the right side of the paw with a zigzag line.
Frame: @EasyPicturesToDraw / YouTube
Behind this paw, add another one, drawing only the fingers. Draw a curved belly under the paws. Under the back, draw something like an inclined bowl - the thigh of an animal.
Frame: @EasyPicturesToDraw / YouTube
Draw another similar line next to the belly line. From the hip, draw a dash to the side, draw a smooth curved line down from it. Add another one on the right.
Frame: @EasyPicturesToDraw / YouTube
Draw a few fingers between these lines with checkmarks. On the left, draw another paw, as in the photo and video below.
Frame: @EasyPicturesToDraw / YouTube
Draw the tail by drawing a curved line to the right paw. In the master class, all the outer contours of the drawing were additionally outlined in fatter, but this is not necessary.
What other options are there
Of course, the T. rex was not as cute as in the simple picture above. But this dinosaur is already more like a real one:
Here you can see how to color a Tyrannosaurus Rex:
Here is an animal from a different angle:
And another very realistic pencil drawing:
How to draw a Triceratops
Frame: @Drawing with Diego / YouTube
What you need
Paper;
pencil or marker.
How to draw a dinosaur
Draw a smooth zigzag line from the bottom up. From the top end, draw down a regular, slightly rounded line.
Frame: @Drawing with Diego / YouTube
Below it, add a long narrow horn with a rounded base.
Frame: @Drawing with Diego / YouTube
From it down to the right draw a curved forehead line and draw another small triangular horn. Lower the line down from it and turn it to the left, drawing an acute-angled mouth. Approximately from the middle of this line, draw a curved lower part of the head to the left.
Frame: @Drawing with Diego / YouTube
Draw an arc under the big horn and an oval eye under it. Color it in leaving a white dot. Behind this horn draw another one of the same. On the teeth of the collar, add a small corner.
Frame: @Drawing with Diego / YouTube
From the neck, draw a short line down to the left, lower it down and draw a few fingers in a zigzag. Finish the leg by lifting the line up. Add another one on the right.
Frame: @Drawing with Diego / YouTube
Approximately from the middle of the collar, bring the line of the back to the left and round it down. From the front leg, draw up another curved line. To the left of her draw a big leg, as in the photo below.
Frame: @Drawing with Diego / YouTube
Draw an oblique line under the belly, depicting part of the other hind leg. Continue the line of the back, draw another one from the leg and connect them so that you get a pointed tail.
Frame: @Drawing with Diego / YouTube
Draw a few slanted strokes on the tail. Draw small vertical lines along the edge of the back and on the legs and add a few on the side of the animal. Draw short lines on the collar, add an arc next to the horn and a small nostril.
What other options are there? At the end of the video it is explained how to color the drawing:
In this master class, a dinosaur is drawn in pencil:
How to draw a Velociraptor
Frame: @FishWhale / YouTube
What you need
Paper;
pencil or marker.
How to draw a dinosaur
On the left side of the sheet, draw a semi-oval without a bottom border. Inside, on the right side, add a circle, and in it - a bold dot. This will be the eye.
Frame: @FishWhale / YouTube
From the drawn part of the head, draw a long wavy line to the right side, as in the photo.
Frame: @FishWhale / YouTube
Draw the bottom border of the head. Below it, add a flat, elongated shape. Draw a smooth line down from the right edge of the head and round to the right - this is the neck of the animal.
Frame: @FishWhale / YouTube
Under the rise in the center, draw a vertical line that bulges to the left. At the end, round it in the other direction. To the right of the line, draw another one so that the outline resembles a dinosaur paw.
Frame: @FishWhale / YouTube
Below, draw two small claws, and above them - one large pointed one. They should look like crescents.
Frame: @FishWhale / YouTube
From the upper right part of the paw, draw a line to the side and connect it with the upper one so that you get a sharp tail. Draw another line under it.
Shot: @FishWhale / YouTube
To the right of the neck, draw a short curved foot with ticked claws, as in the photo and video below. From it to the hind paw, draw a line, and under it - another one, drawing the belly.
Frame: @FishWhale / YouTube
Add another hind leg and complete the line of the abdomen under the neck.
What other options are there? Here are more realistic Velociraptors. In this video, there are two master classes at once, as well as the technique of coloring animals:
And here is how to draw a dinosaur with a pencil:
How to draw a stegosaurus
Frame: @Art for Kids Hub / YouTube
What you need
Paper;
pencil or marker.
How to draw a dinosaur
On the left side of the sheet, draw a small line at an angle. Draw a wavy line from its lower end to the right. This will be the dinosaur's mouth.
Frame: @Art for Kids Hub / YouTube
In front of the lower part of the mouth, add a small line - the mouth. Put a thick dot on top - the eye. Draw a smooth rounded line above it.
Frame: @Art for Kids Hub / YouTube
Draw a small straight line up to the right from this line. At the bottom, draw an expanding neck. In front, depict the nostril as a small dot. Also add small dashes on both sides of the eye.
Frame: @Art for Kids Hub / YouTube
Under the neck, add a small patch of skin by drawing a curved line. To the right of the lower border of the neck, draw a smooth vertical line, and from it down to the left draw another straight line. Draw the right side of the paw with a wide daw.
Frame: @Art for Kids Hub / YouTube
On the right, draw the belly of the animal with a horizontal line. Up and down from the end of this line, draw another one at an angle. Draw the right side of the curved paw as shown in the photo.
Frame: @Art for Kids Hub / YouTube
Extend the top line of the neck and round it down to about above the hind leg. From the middle of this paw, draw a rounded line down. Connect the two lines together to make a pointed tail.
Frame: @Art for Kids Hub / YouTube
Draw a small corner on top of the neck, add another larger one next to it. Draw a few more angular “petals” on the back of the dinosaur, increasing the size of each subsequent one.
Frame: @Art for Kids Hub / YouTube
Draw the paws with two rounded lines. Add another row of plates between the already drawn ones.
Frame: @Art for Kids Hub / YouTube
Behind the back paw, draw another one, as in the photo below. In front of the front paw, draw a part of the other, drawing parallel lines. On the tail, add a couple of small plates, draw similar shapes on the other side.
Frame: @Art for Kids Hub / YouTube
Draw in curves at the bases of the paws and knees, separate the toes and add some kind of spikes on both sides at the end of the tail.
What other options are there
Here is a simpler, very childish drawing:
This tutorial shows how to color a stegosaurus:
This dinosaur is drawn in pencil. The hardest part is shading:
Here's another more realistic option:
How to draw a brachiosaurus
Frame: @Cool Kids Art / YouTube
What you need
Paper;
pencil or marker.
How to draw a dinosaur
The author of the master class at the beginning made a pencil sketch for convenience. But you can do without it.
Draw an arc, to the right of it draw a longer arched line down.
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Under the first arc, draw two rounded lines next to each other - this will be the thigh. From each line, bring down one more, slightly narrowing the leg down. Draw the paw and outline the triangular claw.
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On the right, draw another tilted hip. Draw the bottom of the leg straight. Add paw and claw.
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Connect the legs with a curved line - this will be the abdomen. From the left leg, bring up small arcs to the right and left. Add a similar one to the left of the right leg.
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Draw a long, curved line up to the left of the back. Draw the neck from the opposite side, bringing the line to an arc next to the leg.
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Draw an arc on top, and below it - an oval eye with a black dot in the corner. From the arc, draw a line to the left, round it down and draw an open mouth with a daw. Smoothly bring out the lower part of the mouth, and next to the neck - another arc.
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Continue the line of the back down, then lift it up. Draw a line from the thigh of the back leg and connect it upwards with the previous one so that you get a pointed tail.
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Draw the other two legs and draw a line along the lower border of the neck, belly and tail.
What other options are
In this video shows how to paint a brachiosaurus:
Pencil drawing:
Bonus: how to draw other dinosaurs
This instruction will help you portray ankilosaurus: