Recent experiments measuring brain waves of northern elephant seals in Monterey Bay, California, revealed the animals averaged only two hours of sleep per day during the seven months out of the ...

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It's now known that flies, too, may flit between two or more sleep states. Roundworms appear to have one sleep state only. Researchers consider the possibility of non-human animals dreaming ...

Everything about the animals is "pretty much extreme ... that while spending months at sea, elephant seals sleep in total about two hours per day, divvied up across multiple ten minute naps.

elephant seals average just two hours of sleep a day, broken into five- to 10-minute naps as the animals dive. The new findings represent the lowest daily-sleep total ever definitively recorded in ...

Scientists have learned that northern elephant seals — massive creatures found along the Pacific Coast of North America — cobble together a... Think you're tired? This animal goes for months ...