Both fish and humans have REM-like sleep
Sleep may have originated underwater 450 million years ago

NIGHT LIGHT For the first time, scientists have monitored fish brain activity during sleep by using a zebrafish engineered to make a fluorescent molecule that lights up when nerves (green) or muscles become active.
L.C. Leung
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