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dreaddi
May 30th, 2005, 02:38 PM
http://pharyngula.org/images/vampiresquid.jpg

http://www.eeb.yale.edu/ugrad/images/vampyromorph-002.jpg

they're called that because the tentacles and the skin between them looks like a cloak. A VAMPIRE'S cloak, that is. ;) also maybe their eyes glow red, but maybe they don't. I've never seen one, you know.

Its latin name is Vampyroteuthis infernalis.
They are, apparently, "neither squid, nor octopus, but the sole member of a an entirely separate order, the Vampyromorpha"

Darth Gay
May 31st, 2005, 06:08 PM
This is like one of those really neato creatures.

Gurlugon
May 31st, 2005, 07:22 PM
<3 vampire squids

they own other abyssal critters

Bell E. Laffs
May 31st, 2005, 10:46 PM
That thing sucks, i bet it can't even change colors.

Souless Machine
Jun 20th, 2005, 05:52 PM
I thought they were called Vampire Squid because instead of suckers, their tentacles had little barbs, like fangs.

Ivan Raged
Dec 11th, 2005, 03:50 PM
Fluffy!!! you found my pet he ran away two weeks ago when I tried to give him a tattoo