La bella Italia…

A great weekend gift: our piece on entomopathogenic fungi—some of them called “zombie fungi”—is now live on National Geographic! www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/...

A crushed metal soda can, long emptied of fizz, now drips with life. From its mouth, a lush community of mosses spills out—as if nature had found a new way to pour itself into the world…

A couple of weeks ago, I had to make a quick trip to Valencia. As part of that visit, I took an even briefer detour to Paiporta—one of the areas hardest hit by the Dana in October 2024 in Spain. I was shocked by the quiet resilience of the place. There was one of those silences that says everything.

Without a doubt, one of the emotions that impacts me the most when photographing my projects is the loneliness of animals that, in one way or another, have been torn from their natural environment. Java, Indonesia.

Ape Action Africa, Cameroon.

🪳 “Es en la supervivencia del medio natural donde radica nuestro propio futuro” Entrevista a Roberto García-Roa, doctor en Biología, investigador científico y fotógrafo de conservación e historia natural. ✍️ @juliacussomelero.bsky.social 👁️👇🏽 sondainternacional.com/proyectos/es...

I miss the jungle!

Una lectura entre líneas.

Clases terminadas hoy, mañana en "Biología Evolutiva" @universidadoviedo.bsky.social tendremos el lujo de contar con @rgarciaroa.bsky.social que nos hablará sobre sus trabajos en selección sexual, su carrera y su trabajo de comunicación científica a través de la fotografía. www.robertogarciaroa.com

Fuerza o fortaleza.

Mañanas de niebla en los bosques de Madrid.

‼️ 10.457 personas han muerto en su intento de migrar a España en 2024, el año más mortífero www.eldiario.es/desalambre/1...

Sorry, but I’m very jealous of this guy... The Barbary macaque (Macaca sylvanus), the only living (nonhuman) primate in Europe.

Twenty big cats, including a half-Bengal tiger and four cougars, died at a sanctuary in Washington State after becoming infected with bird flu, according to the facility’s director. “We’ve never had anything like it.”

It's not an ant dangling from its legs in the forest of Cameroon. What you're looking at is a bug (fam. Hemiptera) that cloaks its body with materials from its surroundings-sand, lichens…-creating a perfect disguise. The result is an insect's nightmare: a predator that looks like a piece of earth!

How does our presence shape the lives of other beings? Sometimes in ways we would never imagine. What you see here is the lizard Podarcis pityusensis, an endemic species from the Balearic Islands (Spain), recently listed as Critically Endangered.(1/2)

Scientists: Please join on an open letter to EU policymakers calling them to reinstate the Green Deal. Link to the letter here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Link to sign can be found therein. Please spread the word among scientists, to obtain enough signatories asap. Thanks!

Our Perspective article, in which Jon Evans @1jonevans.bsky.social and I discuss the utility of bringing together the fields of evolutionary biology and assisted reproduction, is out in PNAS Nexus: doi.org/10.1093/pnas...

Carta abierta en respuesta a las recientes declaraciones anti-evolucionistas de Jaime Mayor Oreja. Carta completa: drive.google.com/file/d/10p_4...

Amphibians are the most threatened group of vertebrates on the planet, with one in three species facing serious conservation issues. This situation requires urgent action to avoid losing fascinating species such as the horned frog Pelobatrachus nasutus, a species whose populations are in decline.

Cuatro días. Como la DANA. Cuatro días.

Here, a summary of our previous work revealing evolution in action in #Chornobyl frogs. 🧪 #EvoBio theconversation.com/chernobyl-bl... (and the paper here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....)

El agua se lo llevó todo. Quienes sobrevivieron a la riada en Valencia han quedado marcados por el recuerdo. Reportaje colectivo sobre las personas supervivientes de la #dana #Valencia en @sondainternacional.bsky.social sondainternacional.com/proyectos/el...

Más de 800 organizaciones sociales y medioambientales firman un manifiesto de apoyo al científico Fernando Valladares, investigador del CSIC, amenazado en redes sociales tras la dana elpais.com/tecnologia/2...