Secrets of the Sleeping Beauties of the Animal Kingdom
Psychology Today | 01.02.2026 00:37
In Siberian permafrost, in the Arctic, in Chile’s nearly rainless Atacama Desert, and in the dark forests of Poland, organisms have been found that appear lifeless yet will revive and become fully functional when propitious environmental conditions arise. The question these discoveries evoke is not merely how life endures in harsh, inhospitable-to-life places, but what, exactly, it retains while doing so.
