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Menopause and women’s health: why science needs to catch up

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The Effects of Sleep Paralysis on Elephant Seals

Research is being done on elephant seals in California. They spend seven months of the year just eating fish and squid out at sea. When they're doing these short power naps during this time, they're only sleeping two hours a day. It would be really dangerous if a shark came along at that point. So that's why they have to do it so low down.

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