World Without End will bring an in-depth strategy RPG experience to mobile phones.
Images courtesy Steve Uy

The upcoming mobile game World Without End looks absolutely stunning, as if it were ripped straight out of a comic book.

This is no coincidence: The mind behind the game is Steve Uy, a writer and illustrator of Marvel and DC books including Uncanny X-Men and Avengers: The Initiative. And now he’s trying to break into videogames with World Without End, which he will release for $3 on iOS and Android when it is completed.

Though he has enlisted a programmer and musician, Uy is writing,...

Archaeopteryx’s status as the forerunner of modern birds is crumbling in the face of a new, closely-related fossil.

The new discovery, a feathered, chicken-sized dinosaur named Xiaotingia, has prompted a fresh look at the dinosaur family tree, casting Archaeopteryx as a bird-like dinosaur rather than dinosaur-like bird.

Archaeopteryx has been fundamental to our understanding of birds’ origins but, if confirmed, this finding questions those assumptions.

“This result challenges the centrality of Archaeopteryx in the transition to birds,” write paleontologists led by Xing Xu in a July 28 Nature stud...