Blobfish: The most 'ugly' animal on Earth

On September 12, the Association of Ugly Animals Conservation (UAPS) announced that blobfish is the ugliest animal on Earth through online voting by readers worldwide at uglyanimalsoc.com.

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The website gives a brief introduction of the 11 representative animals 'having an ugly body shape' through posted videos. This strange poll attracted more than 100,000 views of videos and thousands of votes.

Blobfish - champion of the most ugly animals on the planet - (Photo: monsterfishworld.com)

There are now many campaigns and conservation projects that are interested in 'normal and cute' appearance animals, while the ugly animals are at risk of being threatened or endangered to as unnoticed.

Therefore, according to UAPS organizers, the purpose of the vote campaign is to help ugly animals have 'voices' in the animal kingdom.

Paul Foot - owner of blobfish - said: 'On behalf of blobfish, I thank everyone who voted and won the title of the most ugly animal on the planet for blobfish'.

Blobfish species named Scientific Psychrolutes marcidus . Its ugly and 'viscous' body bobbing gently at a depth of 600-1,200m. It eats crab and shrimp. The main threat to blobfish is the trawl of fishing boats.

According to BBC, blobfish fish surpassed other ugly rivals in the next four positions, Kakapo, Axolotls, Titicaca and Monkey.