That’s right the vampire squid is a scavenger. The vampire squid just drifts along in the darkness, letting the ocean currents carry it where they will, until it bumps into the remains of plankton or small marine animals falling slowly downward through the water column. There’s definitely something a little suspicious about that. Well, there’s also its incredibly slow metabolism, which allows it to live in waters with too little oxygen for most creatures.
It’s just 30 centimeters (1 foot) long, and the only thing vampiric about it is its cape – a membrane between its arms. Zoologists gave the vampire squid the formal name Vampyroteuthis infernalis, which means "vampire squid from Hell," but the little squid doesn’t live up to its monstrous name.
One of them, for instance, became the world’s laziest vampire. There’s also very little oxygen at these depths, so the creatures who live down here have evolved unique ways of surviving. If you escape the dreaded Boops boops, you’ll swim down past 1,000 meters and into the midnight zone, where no light reaches.
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