You Won’t Believe How Elephant Seals Sleep Underwater
A team of scientists recorded the brain activity of diving elephant seals in the wild and mapped out the eccentric treks the animals take when they sleep mid-dive.A Mononykus Hunts In ‘Prehistoric Planet’Exactly when and where elephant seals sleep in the open ocean has been a mystery; the animals will forage at sea for months at a time, so sleeping has to occur at some point. Researchers now think they have the answer, which they describe in a study published today in Science.Elephant seals generally dive tobetween 1,000…