An ominously named creature of the deep that has come to signify the most predatory aspects of Wall Street turns out to be more of a dumpster-diving scavenger than a blood-sucking predator.
A vampire squid, which is neither a true squid nor a vampire, floats in its typical feeding posture with a long, pale filament extended in the water to collect drifting tidbits.
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