There is an endless variety of sleep-strategies among animals, yet it seems a universal behaviour. But why bother with sleep at all? How do animals cope without sleep or the dangers of being unconscious in the wild? Just some of the baffling questions that lead through How the Wild Things Sleep.

Le sommeil des animaux

Hans Hass - Pionier der Tiefe

Nearly 3,600 years ago, the eastern Mediterranean was shaken by the eruption of the Santorini volcano, north of Crete, which destroyed several port cities and covered the entire region in a thick layer of ash. This cataclysm, long considered the trigger for the collapse of Minoan civilization, still raises many questions, which a vast international deep-sea drilling project is attempting to answer. Prepared over a period of six years, Expedition 398 brought together a team of scientists from eight countries aboard a research vessel equipped with state-of-the-art technology. Its aim: to take samples from the Santorini caldera in order to establish the age, history and dangerousness of the volcano.