@mbari_news: This vampire squid is visiting your feed today to say hello! 🦑 It’s easy to imagine the vampire squid as a nightmarish predator. It lurks in the eternal midnight of the deep sea, has a dark red body, huge blue eyes, and a cloak-like web that stretches between its eight arms. When threatened, it turns inside out, exposing rows of wicked-looking “cirri.” Even its scientific name, Vampyroteuthis infernalis, means “vampire squid from hell.” In reality, the vampire squid is a soft-bodied, passive creature, about the size, shape, and color of a football. A “living fossil,” it inhabits the deep waters of all the world’s ocean basins at depths where there is almost no oxygen, but also relatively few predators. #vampiresquid #deepsea #deepocean #marinebiology #ocean #oceanlife #fyp
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Wednesday 06 March 2024 20:01:08 GMT
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envy :
what is that noodly thing near its eye?
2024-03-14 07:43:39
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Team 🔥 :
I'll borrow this video.😅
2025-07-07 06:28:44
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fpe fan!! :
basketball??
2024-03-11 10:05:40
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𓇼𝓹𝓾𝓹𝓹𝔂𝓬𝓸𝓻𝓷🦈૮₍˶•ﻌ•˶ა :
hm things are named scary things in the deep, only to just be lil guys chilling is so funny. I love the deep sea 🥰💖
2024-03-08 18:06:02
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AvrilsInnerChild 🇨🇦 :
I love how they played peekaboo
2024-03-06 23:37:49
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randorando212 :
waterborne face sucker from alien 😮
2024-03-07 02:01:35
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