Vampire Squids Live Long Lives in the Dark…

Vampire squids seem to take reproductive breaks, something most cephalopods don’t have the time for.

I could write about vampire animals all the time… they’re so fascinating, and there are a lot more than people think. Most people seem to think “mosquitoes, leeches, bats” –but there are a ton of different animals classified as “vampiric” or “vampire” –and it’s not always because the animals ingest blood. For example, the vampire squid was named that because it has red eyes, and black skin. Sometimes its eyes are blue also, and it lives in the deepest, darkest part of the ocean, almost two miles down.

It doesn’t eat or drink the blood of other animals, –it eats plankton-type, teeny tiny life forms. Also interesting, but new research has determined that they also live much longer lives than shallow water squids, because it’s able to reproduce in cycles, instead of one time, laying all their eggs at once, which is again, a characteristic of shallow water squids. And one last really cool fact: out of all the animals, in the entire known world, the vampire squid has the largest proportional size eye. Tentacles, vampires… what’s not to love. I kinda want one!

By annimi

Ashley writes for Vampires.com, Werewolves.com, and other sites in the Darksites Network. She's involved in several seedy and disreputable activities, smokes too much, and spends her late nights procrastinating for work on her first novel.

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