Endangered blobfish voted the world’s ugliest animal
The blobfish, which lives in the Pacific and looks like a bald, grumpy old man, has been named the world's ugliest animal.
The blobfish, which lives in the Pacific and looks like a bald, grumpy old man, has been named the world's ugliest animal.
More than 3,000 people contributed to an online poll aimed at raising awareness of unsightly species that play an important role in the ecological web.
The blobfish, a flaccid pink creature capable of enduring otherwise crushing pressures at great depth, is becoming a casualty of deep-sea trawling.
It was a clear winner with 795 votes, said Coralie Young, of the British Science Association, which announced the results at a festival in Newcastle, England.
Runner-up was the kakapo, a rare, flightless parrot that lives in New Zealand, and third was the axolotl, a Mexican amphibian also called the "walking fish".