To test sleep, researchers don’t let sleeping jellyfish lie

Experiments suggest that upside-down jellyfish are the first brainless animals that snooze

SNOOZING JELLY  Some Cassiopea jellyfish regularly enter a sleeplike state, a new study finds.

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The life of a jellyfish may seem like a real snooze, but until now biologists were never certain if the gelatinous blobs actually slept.