Thursday, October 31, 2013

Dr. Samuel's New Dinosaur Discoveries

The 40-foot Acrocanthosaurus is just one of the dinosaurs Dr. Steve Stevenson could clone back to life. What other creatures has Dr. Samuel Adamson brought back that might be cloned. Read below! 
“We are living in golden age of dinosaur discoveries. From all over the world, a new host of dinosaurs has been revealed . . .”
John Hurt, 2011

The above statement is so ever true, as Dr. Samuel Adamson's most recent fossil discoveries for 2013 have proven. Dr. Samuel is the head paleontologist at Animal Adventures Inc. (AAI.) and along with his wife, Indiana Adamson and the rest of their team, go out to a couple of their dig sites. The best specimens from their fossil hunting season come back to Animal Adventures Institute (AAI – this is an “offshoot” or “spin-off” if you will, company of AAI.) where Dr. Steve and the institute's other scientists see what they can create out of the DNA they are able to extract. “Most years are pretty successful digging seasons,” says Dr. Samuel, “and this year is no different. God's been good to us this year. In 2013, my team and I have been exploring two of our dig sites.” Dr. Samuel's dig sites of interest this year are in the Cedar Mountain Formation in Utah and the Horseshoe Canyon Formation in Alberta. Dr. Samuel is quoted for saying, “I really enjoyed this year's fossil hunt. Not only did we bring back multiple fossil specimens that might yield viable DNA useful for cloning, we also discovered a new species of dinosaur called Albertodromeus syntarsus. It's a small herbivorous dinosaur similar in shape to other small herbivores found in the area such as Parksosaurus and Thescelosaurus.” The paleontologist doesn't think the Albertadromeus specimens will yield DNA, but this creature's bones are useful in determing the variety of life in what was once an flourishing pre-Flood habitat before the Flood of Noah's time destroyed every air-breathing, terrestrial creature except those on Noah's Ark. He also says that the Horseshoe Canyon Formation was a lush floodplain-like habitat based on the fossil animals and plants found in the area. “This year, along with Albertodromeus, my husband, the team and I have also discovered several specimens of the dinosaurs known as Pachyrhinosaurus, a large ceratopsian dinosaur related to Triceratops, and the hadrosaur, or duck-billed dinosaur Edmontosaurus,” explains Indiana. “Back before Noah's Flood, these species were two of the many species of dinosaurs that used to populate the area. Some like Albertodromeus and Struthiomimus were relatively small herbivores that feasted on low-growing plants. The herbivores were in turn hunted by packs of Troodon and Dromaeosaurus and T. rex-relative Albertosaurus.” Indiana went on to say that the dig site in the Cedar Mountain Formation was vastly different! Here, they discovered the immense partial skeleton of a a large dinosaur called Acrocanthosaurus, a large carnosaur with a ridge along its back and tail and used its strength to take down the ornithopods and long-necked sauropods it lived with. “We've also discovered fossilized amber with containing blood-sucking insects that would have bitten the dinosaurs when alive,” she says. “They're also helpful in obtaining DNA from these long lost beasts.” As I have explained before, after the fossils are taken out of the ground, they are shipped back to AAI to be studied in greater extent by geneticist Dr. Steve Stevenson and the rest of his team. “I'm so excited about the amazing fossil discoveries Dr. Samuel has brought back for us to look at,” says Dr. Steve. “We've only just begun cleaning the plaster off that Dr. Samuel's team coated the bones in to protect them on their journey here, but by the looks of it, the fossils are in good condition and are probably viable for 4,350 year old DNA! It's a good thing dinosaur bones aren't as old as evolutionists claim they are (anywhere from around 230-65 million years old), or we wouldn't have any DNA to retrieve.” But this is only after the fossils are brought back. “The quest to clone these extinct animals back from the brink is far from done,” Samuel says, “but as far as our duty of finding and retrieving the fossils goes, it's finished. I can't wait to see what Dr. Steve recreates this time!”


Written by: Mr. Smiley
Photographer: Daniel P. Smithwater
Edited by: Christian Ryan, Joy Hammond

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Next Issue: Lizzy the Music-Loving Lizard is Back

Thursday, October 24, 2013

Candy . . . How I Love Thee!

Brownies are one of my all time favorite desserts! Read today's article to learn how to make these tasty treats, straight from the lizard's mouth . . . literally!

Today I was originally going to talk about trees . . . but then I decided to talk about Halloween. That got me thinking about candy. Oh I love candy! That's right, this lizard loves candy; especially chocolate. Oh speaking of which, my little sister was trying to reach a cook book on the shelf. Being a little taller than her, I reached up to get it when somehow it ended up hitting me on the head and landing on the floor. Miraculously the cook book had opened to a certain recipe. Well my sister and I decided to make the recipe and it was delicious. Oh sorry, I forgot to tell you what it was! Haha! Here it is: Fudgy Brownies by Mary Ellen Cooper.


You'll need: 
  • ¾ c. cocoa
  • ½ tsp. Baking soda
  • 2/3 c. vegetable oil
  • ½ c. boiling water
  • 2 c. sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 1/3 c. flour
  • 1 tsp. Vanilla
  • ¼ tsp. Salt.
First, stir cocoa and baking soda together. Then stir in 1/3 cup vegetable oil. Add the boiling water and mixture thickens. Add the sugar, eggs, and remaining 1/3 cup vegetable oil and mix well. Put in flour, vanilla, and salt. Then mix until it's smooth. Finally pour into a greased 9x13 inch pan and bake for 25 to 40 minutes. That's what I call a tasty Harvest Time treat!


Written by:Lizzy the Lizard
Photographer: Daniel P. Smithwater
Edited by: Christian Ryan, Joy Hammond, Mr. Smiley

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Next Issue: Dr. Samuel's New Dinosaur Discoveries

Shattered Trust Sneakpeak

Lizzy here and I'm going to report, an exciting new book coming out soon. If you like reading A Stolen Story, a series of articles we've recently published, then you will like to read this!
"You are all about to be tested," said a voice.
On October 26,
"Mr. Smiley, You've got to come see this," shouted Lizzy, gasping for breath.
a newspaper company...
"They appeared out of nowhere," responded Tina, "They call themselves the News raid company!"
wreaks havoc on the Animal Adventures Inc,
"Sorry about this," said a police officer, taking out a pair of handcuffs, "Mr. Smiley...your under arrest."
claiming that Mr. Smiley is a thief and a traitor.
"Without Mr. Smiley, our paper could be shut down," Daniel P. Smithwater sighed, "permanently."
Now it's up to Lizzy, Nathaniel, and the rest of the reporters...
"Okay, now here's the plan," Liz pointed.
to clear his name.
"I know liars when I see them," stated officer Benjamin, walking around Mr. Smiley, "and you are."
Meeting new Allies...
"Selina! What are you doing here?" asks Nathaniel, caught off guard.
Unlocking the past...
"I never thought he'd play so low," Selina trembled.
Sinking into traps...
"Here!" exclaims a reporter, "She stole my story!"
Lizzy froze in place as she spotted a piece of paper on her desk that wasn't there before.
and making negotiations.
"Hello Mr. Smiley," said a voice, "Remember me?"
Mr. Smiley gasped.
"I have come to give you a proposal."
"I am not a thief!" shouts Mr. Smiley. "Or a traitor!
Will the AAI survive?

Shattered Trust, coming soon.

I can't believe that Mr. Smiley, Daniel, and I are actually in a book (even if it is fictitious). Well so long for now! Tune in next time to learn about trees of Intrigue.



Written by: Lizzy the Lizard
Photographer: Daniel P. Smithwater
Edited by: Christian Ryan, Joy Hammond & Mr. Smiley

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Next Issue: Mac Dee Dee's First Harvest

Mac Dee Dee's First Harvest

Here is a section of Mac Dee Dee's farmland. Corn is very popular this time of year!

On 7, 2013, Mac Dee Dee and his family opened a farm in Riverville, New York with a mission – to use “old-fashioned” and organic methods of farming to grow and produce food that wouldn't harbor evil growth hormones and would also be a good place for the animals and plants they grow to spend their lives (until the day they're butchered of course). Remember that Bible verse that explains how we “shall reap what we sow”? Well, Mac Dee Dee did just that – that is, his first major harvest – on the 17th of September. My trusty, junior photographer, Daniel P. Smithwater, and I went to get an exclusive interview with Mac Dee Dee himself to learn more about the operation. He's quoted for saying, “I've always been so excited about this day! Of course, we've been harvesting vegetables, fruits and animal meats and animal products since we opened. But as everyone knows, most of the things farmers grow and produce (corn for example) are harvested big-time in the fall. So this is our first major harvest! I for one am so excited about event.” Mac Dee Dee went on to explain that their farm is approximately 50,000 acres of land and is the perfect place for growing all sorts of food to feed a large population of people. Many health food stores, organic grocers and local buyers have already started buying and (in the case of stores) reselling his products and, in Riverville at least, he's becoming quite popular. While my photographer and I were at the farm, Mac Dee Dee and the others were harvesting potatoes in one part of the farm, cantaloupes in another and corn in yet another. It looked like a lot of work to do! “You have to be so careful when you're doing potatoes,” says Mac Dee Dee. “When we harvest potatoes, we use a large hoe-like piece of machinery and drive it pull it across the potato fields using a tractor.” He went on to explain that they plant the potatoes in long rows. Earlier in the season, they had dug out long trenches and placed the potatoes in each trench. Then they cover the trenches with soil. As the season wears on, the potatoes they planted (called Mother potatoes) sprout baby potatoes of their own and since they grow outwards instead of straight down into the dirt, Mac Dee Dee and the other farmers pile more and more dirt on to keep them covered. “A green potato is a bad potato,” Mac Dee Dee explains. “Green potatoes are toxic, so we don't pick them for consumption and put them in compost instead.” Finally, during the harvest season, Mac Dee Dee and the other farmers work together and use the hoe-like machinery to pull the potatoes out of the soil and remove the top soil-layer. After this is done, they grab the potatoes and place them in their crates to prepare them to ship out. Compared to potatoes, harvesting corn, cantaloupes and the rest of the lot sounds like a piece of cake! (I think I'm going to make some cake this afternoon by the way . . . wait, I'm getting off topic!) Apples are also among the fruits to be harvested during this time of year. While we were at the farm, Mac Dee Dee let Daniel and I eat one, and boy was it sweet! I would have loved to share it with you guys, my readers, but it's kind of hard to do that in writing, sorry about that! In yet another part of this large farm, Mac Dee Dee's farmers were butchering cows, turkeys, chickens, pigs and other animals and gathering the eggs of chickens, geese and others. “We plan on selling a lot of turkey this year,” Mac Dee Dee tells me. “We all know how much people like to eat turkey during Thanksgiving and Christmas, and it's also organic. That's why we're produced hundreds and hundreds of turkeys in addition to the other animals we produce. But unlike most farms that keep them all cooped up, our animals are free-ranging within a (REALLY big) fenced area for them to live and feed naturally – that's why we need 50,000 acres of land.” We also checked out the milking area for the dairy cows. It's a huge place to house their hundreds of milking cows when it's milking time. While I was there, I got to hear the deafening sound of Mozart's music playing from large speakers. Mac Dee Dee says, “There's a rumor that cows produce more and better milk when Mozart music is playing, so we figured we might as well have it playing just in case it proves to be true!” But after milking time's over, not only is it a great relief to my eardrums, but also it's time for the cows to go back out to the pastures where they can graze, just like their ancestors did before the big commercial farms that keep cows locked up in tiny stalls all day long came about. Mac Dee Dee's farm is part of a growing movement to make America's eating habits better and therefore in prove better lives. “Our farm is so big that we're rivaling other non-organic farms. And that's a good thing, because it's time that we as farmers turn this eating thing around and get people to eat a better way, especially during the upcoming holiday season – to eat organic!”

Written by: Mr. Smiley
Photographer: Daniel P. Smithwater
Edited by: Christian Ryan, Joy Hammond

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Next Issue: Batty For Bats!

Thursday, October 17, 2013

Batty for Bats!



The Riverville Bat House is already home to over a hundred bats! Find out more by below.

Despite the recognition they get around Harvest Day (aka Halloween (which I don't celebrate due to it being of the occult), aka “Free Candy Night”), bats are poorly misunderstood. The creatures that are incorrectly believed to be all blood-sucking monsters that get tangled in your hair (if you're unlike me and have enough hair for something to get tangled in it) are misjudged by many. In fact, these creatures don't get tangled in your hair and only three species suck blood (and they only live in Central and South America). In fact, while not all of them are endangered, bats still need protecting. Many of them loose their homes – often times caves are destroyed – and habitats and they need other places to live. That's why Dr. Arizona Stevenson – a zoologist at Animal Adventures Inc. (AAI.) and her daughter, Angel – who's head of the Jurassic Dino Girl Club – have gotten together with a number of other people to bring a new project to life that will help save bats – a bat house! “Bat houses are similar to bird houses,” explains Arizona, “but bat houses are, of course, designed for bats!” Many people build bat houses and set them up in their yards or in elevated areas, but Arizona's group is taking it to the extreme – it's a giant bat house! Called the Riverville Bat House, it stands 30 feet tall and is 20 feet wide. Arizona is quoted for saying, “While 20% of all mammal species are bats – there are about 1,240 different species – bat numbers are on the decrease worldwide. These animals are important to not only nature, but to us as well. 70% of all living bat species are insectivores and they get rid of many annoying insects, including mosquitoes. At the Congress Avenue Bridge in Austin, Texas, the colony of 1,500,000 Mexican free-tailed bats eat 10,000 to 30,000 pounds of insects each night! Other species of bats are important pollinators. Kind of like bees, they spread pollen from one flower to another and this helps the flowers reproduce . . . [since] bats are important to both to nature and us, we feel that we really must protect these mammalian fliers God created.” Located just outside of town, Arizona's group of volunteers successfully finished mounting the bat house on October 7th and already bats are taking interest. Arizona and the others have already spotted about numerous bat species that make their home there during the day including: big brown bats, little brown bats and common pipistrelle bats. Arizona's daughter Angel has already expressed that she's glad she and the other “dino-girls” (as she calls them), could help construct the bat house. “It was really fun,” she says. “Me and the other five dino-girls found it a lot of hard work too, but in the end, it was really worth it. Since bat numbers are disappearing all over the world, every little bit we can do helps the bats as a whole. Besides, we really needed to earn our 'Conservation', 'Bat-Lover', and 'Helping Others' badges (even though I've already gotten the 'Helping Others' badge several times before).” As of when this article was published, approximately 150 bats spend the day at the Riverville Bat House and hopefully, plenty more will decide to come too. This project may seem small considering bat populations all over the world are disappearing, but as Angel said, “every little bit we can do helps the bats . . .”. I totally agree!

Written by: Mr. Smiley
Photographer: Daniel P. Smithwater
Edited by: Christian Ryan, Joy Hammond

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