For a long time, scientists were not sure what a vampire squid ate. Now they know that unlike most squids that are predators, the vampire squid is a detritivore. It eats the leftovers on the bottom of the ocean.
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Nobody knows for sure what they eat but these are a few examples that they have been thought/known to eat shrimp, jellylike animals, prawns plankton, and small deep sea creatures.