Researchers have just discovered a second vampire squid species that lives in the 'twilight zone' of the South China Sea.
Vampire movies have trained us to expect the worst out of any creature that has 'vampire' in the name. We only have ourselves to blame for that, as the vampires from the movies don't exist in real life. Not only that, but we're apparently using that designator extremely loosely when naming certain creatures. That's the case with vampire squids, which sound a lot more terrifying than they actually are.
However, researchers from the South China Sea Institute of Oceanology have released a study detailing the second species of vampire squid. Found in the South China Sea in 2016, V. pseudoinfernalis lives in what's called the 'twilight zone' of the sea. That's at around 2,600 to 3,300 feet, where the light from the surface hardly reaches the water. The reason these vampire squids spend their lives at that depth concerns their well-being.
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