Reptiles Share Sleep Patterns with Mammals and Birds After All (1 of 2) (IMAGE)

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Reptiles Share Sleep Patterns with Mammals and Birds After All (1 of 2)

Caption

This is an Australian dragon (<i>Pogona vitticeps</i>). This material relates to a paper that appeared in the April 29, issue of <i>Science</i>, published by AAAS. The paper, by M. Shein-Idelson at Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt/Main, Germany, and colleagues was titled, "Slow waves, sharp waves, ripples, and REM in sleeping dragons."

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Dr. Stephan Junek, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research

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