Do All Animals Sleep?
What does it mean to sleep, after all?
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 .
