Anna A Monaco

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Evolution enthusiast and explorer of the dark genome | scicomm advocate | sometimes also artist | she/they🇿🇦🇮🇹 Postdoctoral researcher at MPIMG https://darkgenomevo.wordpress.com

A sunny day in the Gilbert Scott building at University of Glasgow

News headline reading “Pterosaur died with belly full of plants-a fossil first”. Below in a smaller font reads “New discovery confirms the long debated hypothesis that the ancient winged reptiles ate plants”.
Below that a picture of the pterosaur fossil.

A beige sea slug with black rings decorating its mantle, in a tide pool on a bed of sea grass

The cover of Nature Genetics July 2025 issue. Digital art of a mouse paw skeletal prep on dark background, digits I to IV disintegrating into viral particles. A caption says “An endogenous retrovirus causes limb malformation”.

A person dressed in black in on a stage with a microphone. There is some burlesque imagery, and a Pint of Science banner.