Strange night-day planet design

I've posted a previous question similar to this in the way that it is of my WIP web-comic. The planet my friend and I have designed is strange as she wanted to create either a permanently dark planet, or a planet divided by dark and light. I'm for it as it lets me create an even more biologically diverse ecosystem (as I'm creating 85% of the alien life) though I've run into the problem of realism. As people have pointed out, and I already had a small idea of, a tidally locked planet would facilitate a dark/light surface. What I'd like to know now is if there is a way to make a credible planet with a completely dark surface that is still warm enough and well lit to cradle life, including plant life.

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