HIBERNATION & COVID-19 IMMUNE : LYSTOSAURUS,HIBERNATION & IMMUNE SYSTEM BOOSTER ......... .......... ......... If we can figure out how to get the same biological trick working in humans, it may provide us new ways of fighting disease. ......... .......... ......... In 1967, New Zealand geologists mapping 240 millions years old Triassic rocks in the desolate interior of Antarctica stumbled upon some fragmentary bones. A few months later they brought the fragments to paleontologist Edwin Colbert for identification. E. Colbert was in the process of retiring after 40 years as Curator of Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York and relocating to the Museum of Northern Arizona in Flagstaff. He wasn’t ready for this surprise. He recognized the bones as an extinct labyrinthodont amphibian, so named for details in their characteristic teeth. Like modern frogs and salamanders, these distant relatives from the Permian and Triassic Periods cou...