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Scientists cracked open 160-million-year-old rocks from a French riverbed and found a creature that looks almost exactly like something alive in the ocean today, and the discovery is forcing a rethink of how bodies evolve

8+ hour, 27+ min ago  (791+ words) Picture the bottom of a warm Jurassic sea, roughly where southern France sits today, 160 million years before anyone built a road or planted a vineyard. Something impossibly spindly picks its way across the mud on legs so long they barely…...