Ancient relative of starfish looked like a spiky cigar

A new fossil relative of the starfish has turned up in 500 million-year-old sediments of the mountains in Morocco. "It's standing upright like a candle, or large cigar sticking out of the sediment," Andrew Smith, a paleobiologist at London's Natural History Museum and a member of the team that uncovered the fossil, told NBC News. The starfish relative lived at the bottom of the ocean surrounding t...