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Anna A Monaco
@annaamonaco.bsky.social
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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
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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.
October 15, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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I’d like to distract you from The Horrors™️ with what I’m pretty sure is a spotted sea hare (Aplysia dactylomela). I found this beauty and 6 of their friends while staring into tide pools like the goblin I am.
A beige sea slug with black rings decorating its mantle, in a tide pool on a bed of sea grass
October 5, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Pretty surreal to see my artwork on the cover of Nature Genetics! Big congrats to @julianeg.bsky.social, @stemundi.bsky.social and the others, and thank you Juliane for letting me help bring your research to life visually.

www.nature.com/ng/volumes/5...
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”.
July 23, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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Talking at @pintofscience.de was really scary and really fun. Thank you everyone for the sold out event ✨
#pint25
A person dressed in black in on a stage with a microphone. There is some burlesque imagery, and a Pint of Science banner.
May 20, 2025 at 9:24 PM