The ocean is the single largest environment in the world. There
are thousands of species living deep into the darkness of the
ocean, many in which most people have never heard about. Here in
our blog, we take you with us deep into the waters to discover
some of the more interesting deep sea creatures. Volume 1: The
Vampire Squid “The vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis,
lit. “vampire squid from ‘Hell‘”) is a small, deep-sea
cephalopod found throughout the temperate and tropical oceans of
the world. Unique retractile sensory filaments justify the
Vampire Squid’s placement in its own order: Vampyromorphida
(formerly Vampyromorpha), which shares similarities with both
squid and octopuses. As a phylogenetic relict it is the only
known surviving member of its order, first described and
originally classified as an octopus in 1903 by German
teuthologist Carl Chun, but later assigned to a new order
together with several extinct taxa.” For more information,
visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_squid You ca