Q&A NATURE'S WEIRDEST CREATURES
With their blood-red skin, white snapping beak and hooks arranged along their eight arms, the vampire squid is a spine-chilling apparition of the deep. Their scientific name, , doesn't help matters – the vampire squid from hell. But it's a highly misleading name. For one thing,family, the Vampyroteuthidae. And they're not bloodsucking beasts from the underworld. They're actually quite gentle and small – at most, their bodies grow to 30cm, roughly the size of a rugby ball.