Stars, often represented with eight points (symbol of regeneration) or with twelve points (in reference to the twelve tribes of Israel and the twelve apostles), adorn liturgical vestments as a ...

It was a "powerful symbol of regeneration and overcoming evil, including death." The four troughs and four staffs would have represented the cardinal directions and stood surrounding the deceased ...

Marlétaz’s team extracted and sequenced the DNA they collected from the brittle stars and assembled the genome. To map how brittle stars have evolved since they diverged from other echinoderms about ...