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A fossil starfish unearthed in Morocco that dates back 480 million years is a 'missing link' between modern day crinoids and their ancestors, a study has reported. Experts from Cambridge said that the fossil — uncovered from within the so-called Fezouata shale of the Anti-Atlas mountain range — is the oldest-known starfish. It dates back to a period in Earth's history — the so-called Ordovician Biodiversification Event — when the life suddenly expanded. The previous contender for the oldest starfish specimen on record was 50 million years younger, the researchers said.  Given the s...

World's oldest starfish dating back 480 million years found in Morocco Ian Randall For Mailonline © Provided by Daily Mail MailOnline logo A fossil starfish unearthed in Morocco that dates back 480 million years is a 'missing link' between modern day crinoids and their ancestors, a study has reported. Experts from Cambridge said that the fossil — uncovered from within the so-called Fezouata shale of the Anti-Atlas mountain range — is the oldest-known starfish. It dates back to a period in Earth's history — the so-called Ordovician Biodiversification Event — when t...

Researchers studying the 480-million-year-old fossil have said it is a “missing link” that will help to “preserve” modern-day starfish

Starfish Appear to Be Among the Longest-Living Organisms On Earth According to a study published in a journal called Biology Letters, Cantabrigiaster fezouataensis, the species discovered by the researchers in Morocco, is adjudged to be the earliest starfish-like animal. One of the paper's authors and Evolutionary palaeoecologist of Cambridge University, Dr. Aaron Hunter, stated that finding the missing link between the modern-day starfish and their ancestors is very exciting. He added that if they went back in time and could see under the sea in the Ordovician, no one would be able to recogn...

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