Researchers discover what vampire squids eat: It's not what you think
Wednesday, September 26, 2012 - 13:30
in Biology & Nature
Over the last 100 years, perhaps a dozen scientific papers have been published on the mysterious vampire squid, but no one has been able to figure out exactly what it eats. A new article shows for the first time that the vampire squid uses two thread-like filaments to capture bits of organic debris that sink down from the ocean surface into the deep sea.