23 Pterrific Dinosaurs Expertly Folded from Paper

Dinosaurs continue to be some of my favourite things to fold so in this post we’re going to take a look at another fantastic round of origami dinosaurs.

Kaede Nakamura has designed an excellent Styracosaurus. Finding a way to fold all those horns couldn’t have been easy.

Styracosaurus, Designed and Folded by Kaede Nakamura

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Here we have a fantastic pair of T-Rexes.

T-Rex, Designed by Fumiakai Kawahata and Folded by Eyal

Diagrams available in Origami Tanteidan Magazine #150

Shuki Kato designed an awesome Brachiosaurus and Alex Mironenko did a really great job wet folding this one.

Brachiosaurus, Designed by Shuki Kato and Folded by Alex Mironenko

Diagrams available in Tanteidan Magazine #151

Here’s an awesome paper Stegosaurus. The individual spikes on the back are very impressive. You can kind of see how many layers of paper are in the back to make room for those spikes.

Stegosaurus, designed by Kawahata Fumiaki and Folded by Matthew Groves

Diagrams available in Origami Fantasy

Satoshi Kamiya’s Coelophysis is one of my favourite origami dinosaurs and it’s actually not that difficult to fold!

Coelophysis, Designed by Satoshi Kamiya and Folded by Mariano Zavala B.

Diagrams available in Works of Satoshi Kamiya 1995-2003

Satoshi Kamiya also designed this really awesome Deinonychus. The claws on the hands and feet look really great here.

Deinonychus, Designed by Satoshi Kamiya and Folded by 簡單的度過-2

Crease pattern available from folders.jp

Tran Trung Hieu is definitely a master of origami dinosaurs so of course we have to include some of his work. I love the claws in this model and the paper he used is beautiful as well.

Anzu Wyliei, Designed and Folded by Tran Trung Hieu

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The Iguanadon is a pretty awesome dinosaur and is known for it’s thumb-like claws. I quite like how those thumbs look in this paper version.

Iguanodon, Designed by Nicolas Gajardo Henriquez and Folded by Hiroaki Kobayashi

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This is an amazing looking dinosaur. It’s folded from a single square of paper and that includes all those individually folded teeth! It took Shuki Kato 15 hours to fold this thing.

Gigantosaurus, Designed and Folded by Shuki Kato

Crease pattern available from Shuki Kato’s Flickr

Here’s another incredible dinosaur design from Tran Trung Hieu. It uses 2-coloured paper so you end up with a different colour for the sail along the back.

Ichthyovenator laosensis, Designed and Folded by Tran Trung Hieu

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I think this little Diplodocus is kind of cute.

Diplodocus, Designed by Fernando Gilgado Gomez and Folded by Luc MARNAT

Diagrams available in Dinogami

Here’s a very different and amazing looking dinosaur from Tran Trun Hieu. I love how the wings end up as a different colour.

Microraptor Gui, Deisgned and Folded by Tran Trun Heiu

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Here’s another quite cute looking dinosaur. I really like the paper used here too.

Designed and Folded by 簡單的度過-2

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Here’s an amazing scene of dinosaurs out hunting. The poses of each of these are excellent.

Hunting Ground, Designed and Folded by Tran Trung Hieu

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This is another incredible origami dinosaur but unfortunately I don’t know who the designer or folder is. The spikes and other details in this model are awesome.

Indominus Rex, Designed by Jason Khu (Photo by Phạm Hoàng Tuấn)

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I really like origami folded from paper money. Here we have a really great Coelophysis folded from some Vietnamese money.

Coelophysis, Designed and Folded by Nguyen TuanTai

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I absolutely love origami dinosaur skeletons. They usually use multiple sheets of paper but they always look super impressive. I think this one though is actually folded from just one sheet of paper!

Pterosaurio, Designed and Folded by Finward

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Here’s another absolutely fantastic Tyrannosaurus design. This is the first time I’ve actually seen this particular design.

Tyrannosaurus, Designed and Folded by Park Jong Woo (Photo by Hiroaki Kobayashi)

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Here’s another incredible dinosaur that’s folded from a single sheet of paper and that includes all the teeth. The facial expression on this one is awesome.

Carnotaurus sastrei (v2.0), Designed and Folded by Tran Trung Hieu

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This Allosaurus really looks like it belongs in a Far Side cartoon to me… It’s definitely because of the teeth.

Allosaurus, Designed by Fumiaki Kawahata and Folded by Alexander Krupnikov

Diagrams available in Origami Fantasy

Here’s an incredible looking baby dinosaur.

Tapejara, Designed and Folded by Kei Watanabe

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This is definitely one of the best Velociraptor designs I’ve seen out there. The face especially is really great.

Velociraptor, Designed by Roh Hyeok Kyun and Folded by J.W Park

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Our final model for this post is another absolutely fantastic Carnotaurus designed by Kei Watanabe who is a master of origami. I’m pretty sure this whole thing is folded from one sheet of paper.

Carnotaurus, Designed and Folded by Kei Watanabe

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That’s it for this post, let us know which one of these dinosaurs is your favourite in the comments!