Top Fossil Colouring Book
Print off these images of ancient New Zealand's lost creatures and colour them in.
Palaeontologists use fossils to work out what the skeletons and muscles of these ancient animals looked like. However they can't usually tell what their skin or feathers were like. Illustrations of extinct animals or restorations are known as paleo art and artists have to use their imaginations when colouring them.
Were these animals camouflaged to hide? Were they bright to attract mates? Use your imagination to decide!
Download the animals individually below.
Giant Burrowing Bat
Vulcanops jennyworthyae
Waipara Giant Turtle
Unnamed
Squawkzilla
Heracles inexpectatus
Mini Penguin
Unnamed
Love's Paleocene Seabird
Australornis lovei
Mannering's Penguin
Waimanu manneringi
Waipara Giant Penguin
Crossvallia waiparensis
Ruth's Bony-toothed Bird
Protodontopteryx ruthae
St Bathans Crocodile
Unnamed
Waipara Tropicbird
Unnamed
