Vampyroteuthis infernalis, lit. "vampire squid from hell"
"V. infernalis is most commonly known for its jet-black skin, the “cape” webbed skin between the arms and eyes that appear blood red at times. It has excellent predator avoidance behavior, including the ability to invert itself, exposing suckers and cirri, making it look as though it is covered in spines.
V. infernalis also has light organs on the tip of each arm and at the base of its fins. The animal will begin to glow and wiggle about while also expelling mucus containing “thousands of glowing spheres of blue bioluminescent light.” While this mucus is being expelled, the vampire squid escapes."
oh Vampire Squid and his glow-in-the-dark boogers live way down in the ocean where there is no light and every creature is scary looking weird and fascinating. He won't get you!
grant wrote:I can help you with that, if you would like.
... and because this thread isn't freaky enough yet, here's some footage of people eating LIVE octopus (although they claim they're squids; I don't think they are?) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NE3NPyt ... re=related
I actually think he's kind of cute. I mean, he's no baby giraffe or anything, but those rounded ear flap things?
He's kind of what would would happen if a regular squid mated with jarjar binks, and the offspring then mated with, like, something spikey and biolumenescent.
