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Friday, June 03, 2005

Vampire squid from hell

From a South Africa scuba diving, marine and environmental news blog:

Vampyroteuthis infernalis literally translates into the phrase "vampire squid from hell". It is the only known member of the Order Vampyromorphida, the seventh order in the Class Cephalopoda. Technical terms aside, the vampire squid appears like a creature that swam out of a scary science fiction movie. It features black chromatophores interspersed with reddish-brown chromatophores.

The vampire squid doesn't have an ink sac but its arms are covered with sharp tooth-like spikes hence the name "vampire squid". This odd member of the squid family has large fins at the top of its body that almost look like a set of large ears. Add to that the fact that it has the blue eyes and that its eyes are proportionally the largest (eye to body ratio) of any animal and it qualifies as both weird and real!

Go read the rest of it for yourself. The description is too weird and scary to post here.

1 Comments:

Blogger Carnacki said...

They do sound pretty cool. I posted that last line to try to lure some traffic to the guy's blog. ;)

6/03/2005 08:49:00 PM  

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