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Do All Animals Sleep?

What does it mean to sleep, after all?
Cassiopea jellyfish are nicknamed "upside down" jellyfish thanks to their preferred tentacles-up pose.
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Sleep is a biological process that is close to many of our hearts, but scientists haven't yet cracked all its secrets. In fact, we still don't even know why we sleep. Thus, one-third of our lives is a complete mystery. 

Of course, sleep—or at least something that looks an awful lot like it—is pretty common: not just among humans and our close relatives, but also among birds, reptiles, fish, insects and even a microscopic worm found in many science labs, called .

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