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Meet the world's ugliest animal... the blobfish

He’s no oil painting.

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THIS IS A blobfish.

It has been officially crowned the World’s Ugliest Animal, following a competition held by the Ugly Animal Preservation Society. Thousands of people voted before the results were announced last night.

The Ugly Animal Preservation Society is an enterprise set up by biologist Simon Watt and dedicated to using comedy as a means of, according to its website:

raising the profile of some of Mother Nature’s more aesthetically challenged children. The panda gets too much attention.

Here are some of the other animals that were in competition:

Wikipedia Wikipedia

Greater short-horned lizard YouTube YouTube

Pipistrellus pipistrellus lateral.jpg British bat Wikipedia Wikipedia

Strigops habroptilus 1.jpg Kakapo Wikipedia Wikipedia

File:Flightless Dung Beetle Circellium Bachuss, Addo Elephant National Park, South Africa.JPG Flightless dung beetle Wikipedia Wikipedia

C insculpta.jpg Pig-nosed turtle Wikipedia Wikipedia

 

Dromedary jumping slug YouTube YouTube

'Scrotum frog' YouTube YouTube

 

European eel YouTube YouTube

Ambystoma mexicanum 1.jpg Axolotl Wikipedia Wikipedia

 

And here’s the official announcement:

NSEC UK

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