About

styracosaurus-for-about-pageEvolvemsTM is a multimedia children’s brand that combines innovative toy design with engaging online content to provide kids ages 6 and up with opportunities to explore and understand evolution and related sciences.

EvolvemsTM evolutionary transforming plush toys will be available in the US in spring/summer 2009.

Utilizing fun and creative toy design and the latest in scientific knowledge, EvolvemsTM brings the natural history of our planet to life.

  • Our line of transforming plush toys illustrate some of the most important and fascinating transitions in evolutionary history, by merging two creatures together into one toy.  The simple act of flipping the toy inside-out allows a child to travel tens or hundreds of millions of years through time.  EvolvemsTM goes beyond traditional dinosaur plush by designing toys based on creatures from the whole catalog of nature’s diversity from the dawn of time to the present.
  • Online games, comics and other content further engage a child in their exploration of evolution and related sciences.
  • Our Blog will be a place where kids, their parents and educators can find out about the most recent developments in evolution and related sciences.

Mission Statement

To inspire children to learn about the natural sciences by exposing them to the diversity and interconnectedness of all life that has lived on our planet.

Founder, Owner & Designer – Avram Kaufman

about-meFlying Monkey LLC was founded by Avram Kaufman in February of 2008 as a vehicle to realize his lifelong dream of sharing some of the many toy ideas that have been brewing in his mind with the world.  He has worked variously in his life as an artist, photographer, carpenter, web designer, computer programmer, industrial designer, and product development manager.  His love of both the arts and sciences have inspired him to create the EvolvemsTM line of plush toys, the flagship brand of Flying Monkey LLC, to inspire that love in others.

avi@evolvems.com


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    Microbe Finds Arsenic Tasty; Redefines Life


    New Microbe Samples

    NASA scientists have discovered an amazing new life-form that redefines what we consider to be the basic building blocks of life.

    A microbe found at the bottom of Mono Lake in California seems able to live in a solution of arsenic which is poisonous to most other life.  Phosphorus, which used to be considered one of the essential building blocks of life, is replaced by arsenic in this organism.

    Dr. Sasselov, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and director of an institute on the origins of life there said, “I would like to know, when designing experiments and instruments to look for life [on other planets], whether I should be looking for same stuff as here on Earth, or whether there are other options.  Are we going to look for same molecules we love and know here, or broaden our search?”

    Seems like we have aliens right here on earth!!!

    Original NYTimes article…

    Dec 10