Michael Hall🏳️‍🌈

@silvermoth.bsky.social

The sea hates a coward

The spookiest cephalopod is the vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis). Its scientific name means "vampire squid from hell." Despite its name, it is neither a vampire nor a squid. It doesn't eat live prey and is more closely related to octopuses, although it is not an octopus either. #OCTOtober

A vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis) in a spooky pose. Its mantle is partially inflated and its fins are close its its mantle. Its arms are going out and turning in, with its webbing and cirri visible. The cirri look like fleshy spikes that are in three rows on each arm. It has two thin orange tendrils, one in front and one that is mostly behind. Its skin a dark orange and wrinkly. It has round blue eyes. The background is black and the vampire squid is partially in shadow.A vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis) floating in the ocean, surrounded by white specks of marine snow. The vampire squid is a pinkish orange with blue eyes. Its arms are spread out with translucent webbing in between, and its fins are mid flap.A vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis) swimming. It is turning downward. Its cute fins that resemble ears are flapping. It has big beady blue eyes. Its arms are held closely together and trailing behind, with one of its tendrils extending further. It is red and kid of wrinkly, and you can see white dots on it which are photophores. There is marine snow around it.
A vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis) swimming and contorting its arms to hide its cute little face. Its fins are mid flap, and it has big blue eyes. It is dark red and is covered in tiny white photophores.

Did you know that there are many collective nouns for penguins? They can for example be a ‘waddle’ on land, or a ‘raft’ in the water. I’ve written about a few of my favourites here. Let me know yours!

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