This Is Unofficially The World's Ugliest Animal
The Noble Blobfish via MonsterFishWorld After tallying thousands of votes, this creature is now the mascot of the Ugly Animal Preservation Society. Meet the blobfish (Psychrolutes marcidus), a tadpole-shaped deep-sea fish with a legendarily ugly mug. And last night, at the British Science Festival, biologist Simon Watt announced that the blobfish has been voted the mascot of his newly formed Ugly Animal Preservation Society. We've written about the Ugly Animal Preservation Society before; the idea is that it's not only the cute or iconic animals, like the panda, that deserve attention and saving--gross-looking creatures like the blobfish, proboscis monkey, and pig-nosed purple frog are just as important to their respective ecosystems. The blobfish won the contest by over 10,000 votes--not a surprise given that its body is mostly a misshapen clump of jello. The blobfish isn't boneless, but its muscle mass is gelatinous, a gooey mush barely thicker than water. That enables...