Ruth Schuster

New Dinosaur Discovered: Newly revealed small sauropodomorph, named Musango, may have been a bipedal omnivore, unlike its giant vegan cousins such as Diplodocus, which definitely needed four legs

Sticky hairs on the alpine flower Saxifraga led Darwin to posit that it might eat animals and 150+ years later, that has been shown to be true

Analysis of incised volcanic glass arrowheads shows effort was expended, even if no coherent graphic language seems to have yet emerged in Neolithic Turkey

A particle accelerator probed the proboscis of an extinct planthopper that lived 99 million years ago and may have drunk straight from trees

Ruth Schuster (via Haaretz.com) A particle accelerator probed the proboscis of an extinct planthopper that lived 99 million years ago and may have drunk straight from trees

Under the parking lot of the Winter Stadium in central Israel is a seventh-century complex with streets, shops or storerooms and workshops, but where's the city?

The carnivorous insect peering through a leaf triumphed over battling cuttlefish exchanging violent displays of color, a bridge between islands and a baby turtle in this year's BMC photo contest

Lizards and snakes comprised almost a third of the Natufian diet in northern Israel 15,000 years ago, but that doesn't mean eating them was a choice

Two camps, 'We ate the megafauna' versus 'No we didn't', face off. So did we eat and extirpate the mammoth and other prehistoric giants? A pair of Israeli scientists dig in with an article and a rebuttal of the rebuttal

Dark spots in kitty eyes are common, but how they're caused remains a mystery. Now unexpected elements have been discovered in the lesions