252 - Monkey Tuesday

1. Lucky? A disembodied foot found in a Virginia garbage dump that was originally thought to belong to a human, was then confused for an ape's, has finally been determined to have come from a bear. This confusion is "probably more common than people realize," says the local sheriff.

2. Home Improvement Little Joe, the gorilla, escaped from his enclosure and rampaged through Boston before being recaptured. Three years later he is being reintroduced to his adoring public after a complete redesign of his cage to make it a little more escape proof.

3. Dawn of Man The defining line between man and animal is getting thinner and thinner. Researches recently observed Chimps sharpening spears and using them to skewer bush babies as a food gathering technique.

4. Bigfoot & Unicorn Two great cryptids that taste great together.

5. Look at 'em Go Keepers at the Lowry Park Zoo are using hot monkey love as a promotion for their new R-rated after hours zoo tours.

142 - with Links!

1. Big Bird: Dead A pair of amateur photographers in Russia near the Chinese border discovered the bloated rotting carcass of a giant bird like animal, still unidentified.

2. Television If you missed last weeks episode of Scrubs or Heroes and desperately need see it in a low quality streaming format then check out this site quickly before the man shuts it down. st

3. Huge Nerd Archive Not only do they have the original blueprints for the notorious tall Snaggletooth, they also have virtually, every rare piece of Star Wars paraphernalia you can imagine.

4. Scorpio Sinking Bill Nye gives just one reason (out of hundreds) why believing in astrology is stupid.

5. Gogonasus Another great fossil showing the link between fish and amphibians.

102 - with Links!

1. Highway Patrol Listen how cocky he is at the end when he says "I told you so." I wonder why he wasn't concerned about the barely visible passenger. By the way, no cop has ever asked me to get out of the car when he is writing a ticket.

2. Where the Bigfoot Lives Amateur spelunkers recently discovered the previously unknown home of America's most elusive cryptid, a giant underground cavern in Sequoia National Park. "We're just beginning to understand the scientific ramifications of this," says one expert.

3. RPS 8 nearly incomprehensible steps toward beating anyone at Rock Paper Scissors. If you can work your way through the double speak and twisted logic, you'll soon be a champion.

4. Popcorn Lung I always knew microwave popcorn was a bad idea.

5. Undock One incredible photograph of the International Space Station and the Space Shuttle Atlantis as they pass across the surface of the sun.

085 - with Links!

1. Ask and Ye Shall Receive Just yesterday, I suggested the world needed a good bigfoot hoax. Today, without even looking, I came across this story of a guy in Maine or New Jersey selling a baby bigfoot for $17 million.

2. Indian Avian It isn't clear from this article if Bugun Liocichla is an entirely new species or just one that has never before been seen in India.

3. Wooly Did you know that there are currently only five species of rhino, and one of them, the Sumatran Rhino, is bound for extinction? These guys are so rare that they have only recently been captured on video. Some claim they are the last living representatives of the supposedly extinct Wooly Rhino.

4. Speaking of Wooly Big and Beardy is an online journal dedicated to all things facial hair including the elusive bearded baby.

5. Rebirth of the Cool A short article about Lazarus Taxon, the discovery of a living animal that was previously considered thought to be extinct.

084 - Yeti Tuesday

1. Bride of Bigfoot The Museum of Hoaxes is a pretty cool site. My favorite section is dedicated to the best fake bigfoot stories from the 1880s through the 1970s. After 30+ years, I think it is about time for a good bigfoot hoax.

2. Mistery Yetti A new blog about bigfoot and yeti so badass that the author, when creating the URL, didn't bow down to convention and spell "mystery" or "yeti" correctly. Now that's hardcore.

3. Pinback The handmade sasquatch/bigfoot/yeti market is woefully underrepresented at etsy. The best thing I could find was this badge from Hobbledehoy, but it was sold already.

4. I Heart Yeti If you only look at one link today this should be the one; the web's largest collection of Yeti and Yeti-like photographs.

5. Where Bigfoot Walks What starts out as an examination of the possibility of an actual living Sasquatch turns into a series of ruminations on nature and man's relationship with the wilderness.

007 - Monkey Tuesday

1. Florida Skunk Ape After it's capture by military forces in the 1970's, "rumor has it that a live specimen of the Skunk Ape was taken to a large vault where it was held at Everglades National Park until it allegedly managed to escape by breaking through a concrete wall." Hmm.

2. Japan - Monkey - Rollerskates Also check out part two in which the monkey does handstands and ball balancing. Keep your eyes peeled for part three in which he mauls audience members.

3. Vatican: "Enough Already" Even the Vatican has had enough of the intelligent design "debate." So please give it a rest. ''The faithful have the obligation to listen to that which secular modern science has to offer," says Cardinal Paul Poupard.

4. World's Best Animated Gif A lot of people have done animations of the famous Patterson bigfoot film, but there is some real artistry in the way this one flows across your screen.

5. Peace Out Finishing up here on Monkey Tuesday is a Brian Brasher designed t-shirt (based on the above mentioned Patterson footage) from Threadless.

006 - Animals - with Links!

1. World's Oldest Tortoise: Dead Harriet the Galapagos Tortoise may have been kidnapped and studied by Charles Darwin, but she lived a long and happy life in captivity. Now she's dead of a heart attack at age 176. We hardly knew ye. Rest in peace.

2. Tiny Talking Cat-Faced Monkey Man This isn't really that far from where I live, and believe me, if I run across this thing, I don't know what I'll do, but I sure won't offer it a freaking ride home.

3. Paralyzed Rat Walks! One more step towards making stem cell research one of the really great things that we aren't allowed to mess with.

4. Rooster and Kitten are Friends More Japanese television. This time an adorable little kitty is best friends with a horrific rooster. This clip only gives a small portion of the story, so we don't know how it ends. I don't think it is happy, though. P.S. Anyone else would have substituted "cat" and "rooster" with genitalia references.

5. Animalphabet And finishing off today's all animal theme is a t-shirt called Alphabet Zoo designed by Sara Lee over at Threadless. On an administrative note, I'm now taking your submissions for an upcoming all-request weekend.