Fish ecology, life history traits, acoustics, predator prey-interactions, biodiversity. Ocean Twilight Zone.
Here’s the twist: it doesn’t drink blood.
Here’s the twist: it doesn’t drink blood.
But Instead of hunting the living, it drifts silently through the deep, collecting “marine snow”, tiny flakes of dead plankton and detritus sinking from the surface.
But Instead of hunting the living, it drifts silently through the deep, collecting “marine snow”, tiny flakes of dead plankton and detritus sinking from the surface.
Dracula, Bram Stoker
The vampire squid Vampyroteuthis infernalis, it's name literally means “the vampire squid from hell.”
Sounds like a Halloween nightmare, right?
Dracula, Bram Stoker
The vampire squid Vampyroteuthis infernalis, it's name literally means “the vampire squid from hell.”
Sounds like a Halloween nightmare, right?
More about the squid:
www.mbari.org/animal/vampi...
#spookyspecies #biodiversity
More about the squid:
www.mbari.org/animal/vampi...
#spookyspecies #biodiversity