The Beauty of Bodysnatching. "Astley Cooper (1768–1841), an English surgeon and anatomist, is remembered for his contributions to vascular surgery and other specialties." [Via]

Animal Planet: Where the wild things are...and where they're not. [Via] more inside

When there ain't no thing to climb... The sad lament of a snail who made the wrong decision in life...

Heavy Breeding. "In 1920, the brothers Lutz and Heinz Heck, directors of the Berlin and Munich zoos, respectively, began a two-decade breeding experiment. Working with domestic cattle sought out for their 'primitive' characteristics, they attempted to recreate 'in appearance and behavior' the living likeness of the animals’ extinct wild ancestor: the aurochs. 'Once found everywhere in Germany,' according to Lutz Heck, by the end of the Middle Ages the aurochs had largely succumbed to climate change, overhunting, and competition from domestic breeds."

From Bench to Bunker: How a 1960s discovery in neuroscience spawned a military project. [Via]

Meet Skippy, the Stone-Skipping Robot. [Via]

Even typographic designers have "guilty pleasures", but theirs are fonts. more inside

The creepy-groovy photography of Denise Grünstein. Creepy. CREEPY.

The Hereford Mappa Mundi The Hereford Mappa Mundi (more, more). From the BBC's the Beauty of Maps.

Monkeyfilter 2: Electric Boogaloo This is the work-in-progress - it has a copy of the MoFi database so you can log in with your usual username and password and all the content up to now is over there. However new content over there won't stay...so go on over and be guinea pigs (or the simian equivalent). There will be bugs - let us know what they are!

Pensive mechanical Bodhisattva by Wang Zi Won. [Via]

Imma let you finish... What are the greatest MoFi threads of all time...OF ALL TIME?! Post them here in this meta-post.

There's a whole lotta shakin' goin' on You can receive a free sensor to monitor for earthquakes if your computer is within one of the regional arrays for the Quake Catcher Network. If you have an internet-connected computer with a free USB port, why not participate?

The Windcatchers of Persia. [Via]

The Universe Is Beige from NASA (who should know)

She's Got It. This is what I think of when I hear "Venus". more inside

Redux Riding Hood
In 1997, animator Steve Moore was given free reign, and the result was a Big Bad Wolf with regrets and a time machine, written by a guy who usually does sitcoms, designed by a guy who had never done animation, with a musical score of improv jazz and some familiar voices, including Adam West, Garrison Keillor, Mia Farrow and Michael Richards as The Wolf. Via Cartoon Brew.

This piece explains how everything you were taught about Native Americans and the First Europeans in America is wrong. Unfortunately, it's in Cracked.com's highly annoying "listicle' format. But if you can get past that, you WILL learn a thing or six. more inside

James and Other Apes I was going to post the synopsis of this project but realised that I had already formed the same thoughts as the artist before I read his description. These are great photos. more inside

Monkey Feedback Survey
Some hypothetical questions on the offchance that we do a rewrite of MoFi: * What would you like to see done differently? * Which features work and which don't? * What is something you have seen on other websites that could work here?