The Elvis Dinosaur

Cryolophosaurus the Elvis Dinosaur

Cryolophosaurus was a Theropod (meat eating carnivore) of the Early Jurassic Period that lived in Antarctica.  Antarctica was not as far south back then so it was warmer than it is now.  In the Northern Hemisphere we tend to think of it being warmer down south, but the South Pole is the coldest place in the world.  In reality, it is warmest at the Equator...which is south of the Northern Hemisphere. 

Back to Cryolophosaurus...  This was a fairly large Theropod but not a T. rex sized animal.  That being said, Cryolophosaurus was around 10 feet tall, 26 feet long, and weighed 1,100 lbs.  In metrics those measurements are:  9 meters tall, 8 meters long, and weighed or massed at about 500 kg. 

The most striking feature of this dinosaur was its crest. It was not like the hollow duckbill dinos' or hadrosaur hollow crests.  It was solid bone.  It looks a bit like a swoop hairdo like Elvis Presley once had so Cryolophosaurus is nicknamed: "The Elvis Dinosaur!" 

The medium sized Pterosaur also lived in the Antarctic.  It is called Dimorphodon.  It was about 3 feet or about a meter long.  It weighed 4.4 lbs or a mass of 2 kg.  By the way.... (warning...retired science teacher geeking out) n...Pounds or lbs are a measure of weight and kilograms or kg are a measure of mass...I had to say that.

Dimorphodon probably primarily ate fish and of course it may have been a scavenger eating dead animals that it found on the shore. 

Elijah vs the Priests of Baal

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Elijah vs the Priests of Baal 

Elijah was the prophet in ancient Israel.  Many of the people had abandoned the worship of the Lord.  Instead many of them were worshipping an idol god called Baal.  Elijah challenged the priests of Baal... to a duel.

Elijah told them that he would prepare a sacrifice and the priests of Baal could prepare a sacrifice and they would see which sacrifice was honored. 

The priests of Baal danced and prayed and cut themselves and hollered louder as their offering just sat there.  Elijah told them to pray louder because maybe their god was asleep and they needed to wake him up.  Still, nothing ever happened to the sacrifice that was prepared by the priests of Baal.

Then Elijah had the people dig a trench around his offering.  He also had them pour lots of water on the bull that was the offering.  He even had them pour until the trench was filled up with water.  When Elijah prayed just once fire came down from heaven and consumed his offering and even licked up all the water (vaporized it) from the trench.

Afterwards He executed the evil priests of Baal.  Since these Priests of Baal were probably pushing the evil false idea that human sacrifice to Baal was good, it is obvious that they deserved their fate.

I drew this during General Conference, so I could pay better attention.  I still say that for those of us with ADD or ADHD...that if you let us draw or do something else like a simple video game during a talk or during church services...we will get more out of the talk or meeting.   The same probably goes for school.  I wish I had been more in tuned to this when I was a teacher.  I think I could have at least had the kids draw their notes.  I am sure that would have helped some of them.

Jesus Teaches about Forgiveness

Jesus Teaches About Forgiveness

Jesus Teaches About Forgiveness statues at Thanksgiving Point

At Thanksgiving Point is Ashton Gardens, in Lehi, Utah.  There is a display there called Light of the World.  It is a beautiful set of statues that touched my heart.  They depict the life of Jesus Christ.  I took the above photo and drew my version as a coloring page.  

The local Jewish religious leaders once brought a woman to Jesus.  She had been caught committing adultery.   The Law of Moses said that she should be stoned.  The Jewish leaders actually did not have authority to pass capital punishment.  The Jewish leaders also knew that Jesus taught love and forgiveness.  They were hoping to be able to be able to criticize Jesus for whatever His decision was.  Things did not happen as they hoped.

Jesus looked at the woman and looked at them and said, "He that is without sin let him first cast a stone at her."  Older men tend to be wiser than younger men.  Beginning at the eldest down to the youngest they all slunk away.  The Lord asked the woman where her accusers were or and who condemned her.  She answered, "No man Lord."  Jesus then said, "Neither do I condemn you, go your way and sin no more."  Jesus did not condone or excuse her sin, but gave her the opportunity to repent.

This story is in John chapter 8.

I love this story because we are all sinners and Jesus gives us all an opportunity to repent.  I feel that very personally.   Jesus and our Heavenly Father will not say that sinning is OK, but he will give us a chance to repent and mend our ways. But we must remember that this life is the time to prepare to meet God and to not procrastinate the day of our repentance.  If we knowingly live a life of sin and then think that on our deathbed we can completely repent, then I believe that things are not going to work out for us.   So we all must try to do our best now.  Then if we mess up we repent as fast as we can and try to not repeat the sin.  God and his Son Jesus Christ are anxious to grant us forgiveness if we will repent and again, try and do our best afterwards.  I believe the Lord needs to see us making that effort to live without the sin.  He does not expect us to reach perfection in mortality, so don't beat yourself up for being imperfect.  Our Savior will recognize our intent to do good and our efforts to do better in our lives.  I think that is much of the message I got from LDS General Conference this weekend.

Pictures to Color during Conference

Jesus at the Sea of Galilee with a fishing boat

I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.  Today and tomorrow is our General Conference.  As I was watching the first session of LDS General Conference just now, one of our General Authorities was just speaking and I realized I needed to serve.  You see, Elder Pinegar said that we all have ways we were foreordained to serve our fellow men.  He pointed out that serving others is how we are most fulfilled in life.  And that those who live only for themselves shrivel up. 

Well, I realized that this coloring pages blog is one of the ways I can serve.  There are lots of things I can no longer do.  I have severe life threatening health problems. so I can't teach school full time anymore, nor can I help at the Church Welfare Farm.  There are many many things you can't do to serve others when you are saddled with severe health problems.  But drawing these picture is one way I can serve.  True it can still be very painful if I draw or type for very long, but drawing pictures and writing about them is one way I can serve.  SO.. with that in mind, I am posting another picture of Jesus that I did last week.  I also want to let you know that if you click on the above button "Free Printable Downloads" you can find many pictures to color.  If you are LDS or just religious, there are many Old Testament, New Testament, and Restoration of the Gospel drawings that you or and your kids could color. 

Here are a few examples of drawings you can find in the "Free Printable Downloads". 

Jesus Calling his Apostles by the Sea of Galilee

Mary and Baby Jesus

Jesus and Joseph working in Carpentry Shop

Heleman leads the Young Ammonite Warriors

Jesus as as a 12 Year Old at the Temple

Jesus with a Welcoming gesture

Joseph Smith's First Vision

Jesus Ascending into Heaven

Temple with Family

Moses with the Ten Commandments

Joseph Smith Translates the Golden Plates

Together in the Celestial Kingdom

NOTE:  There are many more drawings found in the Free Printable Downloads.  If you want to read what I said about each drawing then you just scroll down and hit the "Older Posts" button. You will have to scroll down and hit that button many times to see some of the older drawings and what I wrote about the drawing.  

Star Trek Vulcan Members of Starfleet

I had a drawing lesson while in Wyoming.  The lesson was from my niece H.J. who is an 11th grader.
She has a unique style of drawing people so I paid attention.

Star Trek is a groundbreaking TV and movie series.  It had the first African American woman in a vital role as an officer.  Lt. Uhura was the communications officer of the Starship Enterprise.  Nichelle Nichols, who played Uhura did not like the role.  She was invited to meet Martin Luther King, the great civil rights leader.  He told her that Star Trek was the only show he let his kids stay up late to watch.  Nichols said, "Well, I'm going to quit the show."  Dr. King told her, "You can't do that.  This is the only show that shows our people in a leadership role, as an officer."  Nichols did not quit.  Another interesting story is that Whoopi Gooldberg tells is that when she was a little girl and she saw Star Trek on for the first time.  .  .  she went running through the house shouting, "Mamma, Mamma, there's a black woman on TV and she aint no miad!"  Prior to Star Trek all African American actors were relegated to servant roles.  Lt. Uhura as a Starfleet officer was a big deal!

I would never make it as a Vulcan.  Vulcans are from the planet Vulcan and strive to always be non-emotional and purely logical.  The part I really like about Vulcans is that they are very smart.  Spock in the original Star Trek series is Science Officer.  .   .  and I've always loved science! 

The first drawing is by by niece, H.J.  I added the background of the Planet Vulcan. 

Female Vulcan Starfleet Officer by H.J. 

Female Vulcan Starfleet Officer by Robin Lyman

This second drawing is by me.  It is a Vulcan Starfleet Officer on the bridge of a 

Galaxy Class Starship.  

Pronghorn Antelope

Pronghorn Antelope

Although not a true antelope like those found in Africa, the Pronghorn Antelope of the American West is often called an "antelope."  They fill the same ecological niche as the antelope of the old world because of parallel evolution.  Pronghorn Antelope are actually closely related to giraffes.

Antelope looking for a place to go under the fence. 

We are visiting family in Wyoming, USA.  A couple of times yesterday, a pronghorn crossed the road in front of us.  We pulled over and watched them walk along the barbed wire fence until they found a spot to crawl under the fence.  

Pronghorn can run 55 miles per hour.  That would be 88.5 kilometers per hour.  They are a beautiful hoofed animal with white and orangish tan fur.  There used to be 12 species of "antelope" in North America during the Pleistocene age but only the Pronghorn Antelope survived to modern times.  

The scientific name for Pronghorn Antelope is Antilocapra americana.  I took the below picture of a taxidermy antelope at the "Buffalo Bill Museum" in Cody, Wyoming.  I based my drawing on this photo.  You can use it to get the correct colors for the antelope drawing when you color it.  Or color it any way you want.

Antelope at Buffalo Bill Museum

Six Kingdoms of Life

Kingdoms of Life

K = Kingdom

There are 6 Kingdoms of Life 

There used to be 5 Kingdoms.

K. Monera was divided into 2 kingdoms:

     K. Archaebacteria is single cell organisms     that live in extreme environments.  They have 
    no nuclei.  They live in extreme temperatures like in hot springs, geysers, and even glaciers.

    K. Eubacteria is single cell organisms that live in more normal environments... like on your 
    skin, in yogurt, even in your gut.  Only 1/2 of 1% of Eubacteria are the kind of bacteria that can make you sick.  Antibiotics kill bacteria. 

     Both forms of bacteria reproduce by binary fission...they split or divide in half. 

K. Protista has single cell organisms and multicellular organisms.  Single cell Protists are like 
paramecium and amoeba...both are found in pond water and some are plankton.  Protista has cells with a nucleus in each cell. 

Multicellular protists are plant-like things like kelp (seaweed).  K. Protista reproduces by mitosis.
  Mitosis is how cells with a nucleus divide to reproduce.  

K. Fungi is multicellular organisms that often  live on dead and decaying matter.  They often have 
many nuclei in each cell.  They include:  mushrooms, toadstools, mildew, and some can be infections 
like athlete's foot.  Fungi have long thin hypha.  Think "refrigerator surprise." Fungi reproduce by
 spores.  

K. Plantae is plants.  Plants make their own food by photosynthesis using chlorophyll, sunlight, water,
 & carbon dioxide.  In photosynthesis the plant cells take in carbon dioxide and give off oxygen.  Little
 green organelles called chloroplasts, inside plant cells, are where photosynthesis takes place.  So
 plants don't need to eat.  Plant cells have one nucleus in each cell.  Plants do not have a brain and 
nervous system nor a muscular system so plants can't move about independently.  Most plants 
reproduce by sexual reproduction (pollen cells fertilize the eggs found in the flowers).  
Examples of plants are trees, grass, bushes, herbs or weeds, and flowers.  

K. Animalia is the animals.  Animals need to eat.  They also need to drink water.  Animals DO have
 a brain, nervous system & a muscular system so most animals CAN move about independently. 
 Animals take in oxygen and give off carbon dioxide.  Most animals reproduce by sexual reproduction,
 so it takes both a male and female to create offspring.  Animal cells have one nucleus in each cell. 
 Examples of members of K. Animalia are fish, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, etc.  Humans are
 members of  K. Animalia. 

Here is an easy way to look at this information:  

The above "6 Kingdoms Study Guide" vsiual aide is available to print on Free Printable Downloads . . .

 the top button on this blog.