How Europeans Imagined Exotic Animals Centuries Ago, Based on Hearsay.

Robot dogs, foldable tablets and mongoose bloggers: sci-fi visions of the media future.

On the Trail of Florida's Bigfoot—the Skunk Ape. [Via]

The ethics of genetically enhanced monkey-slaves. [Via]

Monsieur COK. "Mister Cok is the owner of a large bomb factory. Looking for efficiency and profit, he decides to replace his workers by sophisticated robots. The formers stare helplessly at the toil of the robotic labourers. But one of the workers does not accept being discarded so easily..." [Via]

Simius Volants (Flying Monkeys.) Curious creatures by Anthony Sieben.

Madame Alberti's science of flight.

Domestikia: The gorgeously surreal animation of Jennifer Linton (nsfw).

The Brief, Wondrous Life of Zina Lahr. "When 23-year-old Lahr went missing on a trail outside Ouray, Colorado, the world lost an amazing young talent." [Via]

Peacekeepers - 01 - The Long Way Down. "What would you do if you were getting texts from God?" [Via]

What’s the Point If We Can’t Have Fun? "Let us imagine a principle. Call it a principle of freedom... Let us imagine it to hold that the free exercise of an entity’s most complex powers or capacities will, under certain circumstances at least, tend to become an end in itself..." [Via]

The Face of God, on St. John's Wort.

Man Photoshops Technology Into 15th Century Paintings, Hilarity Ensues.

Meet Robosimian, the ape-inspired robot!

MONSTER PORN: Amazon Cracks Down On America’s Latest Sex Fantasy. [Via]

Why Life Does Not Really Exist.

Welcome to Dinovember: A month-long imagination invasion.

Lindsey Carr's aristocratic monkey paintings.

Surreal Photo Manipulations by Caras Ionut.

Dinosaur Feathers Found in Ancient Amber.