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Sleep while you chew is how the real-life Rudolphs get enough rest
A University of Switzerland study revealed reindeer can get enough sleep by eating grass instead of sleeping, and by chewing on it. “We recorded our data without…the need to use tools that would cause brain damage,” Melanie Furrer, a Neuroscience professor at the University of Switzerland, said. “While they chew…they’re in a body position that…
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Mastodons were roaming in the area 2 million years ago.
Researchers have found two million-year-old DNA sequences in Greenland’s Kap Kbenhavn, the oldest ever obtained from frozen soil. They said the region was once home to mastodons and reindeer that roamed a forested ecosystem. “Not in a million years would you expect a mastodon up there,” researcher Ole Willerslev said. The researchers used DNA matched…