http://blog.sfgate.com/hottopic...ts-ugliest-creature-pic/




The deep-sea-living blobfish was voted the world’s ugliest animal, for obvious reasons.

Scientifically dubbed Psychrolutes marcidus, the goopy marine creature resembles a grumpy old man or a translucent Jabba the Hut.

A British organization called the Ugly Animal Preservation Society ran a campaign to raise awareness for endangered ugly animals by having the public vote for its new mascot. Of the 3,000 votes cast, 795 were for the homely, dejected-looking blobfish.

With so many species teetering close to extinction, including the blobfish, the organization says people need to learn to appreciate the aesthetically challenged as much as the cuddly and adorable (sorry, pandas, you’ve had your share of the spotlight).

“We’ve needed an ugly face for endangered animals for a long time and I’ve been amazed by the public’s reaction,” Simon Watt, the society’s president, tells the Guardian. “For too long the cute and fluffy animals have taken the limelight, but now the blobfish will be a voice for the mingers who always get forgotten.”

Runners up in the contest were:

The kakapo, a giant flightless parrot in New Zealand with virtually no natural defense against predators.
The axolotl, a slow-to-age salamander that can re-grow its own limbs.
The Titicaca, a water frog with a funny name that’s also goes by the unfortunate term of “aquatic scrotum frog”.
The proboscis, a monkey with a ridiculously large nose and a gas problem from eating unripe fruit.

I actually think he's pretty cute if you wipe that slime off his lip.

I liken him to a cartoon character so he's got instant hug-appeal. I find flies and most drinking-straw based faces to be much more obectionable.

looks like a half-melted ziggy

Aw Parshvik beat me to it..




I think like the Ziggy comic character (which has never been funny as far as I can remember, not a single time did I laugh), God didn't really take a long time to draw it because he figured nobody really pays any attention to it anyway.

Because it's deep in the ocean and all

I guess it's not nearly as ugly when it's not in the parking lot of the Deep Sea Marine Biology division of the Ugliest Animals Preservation Society, all crushed under its own weight and snots dripping out of its nose.

In fact theyre kinda cute and cuddly

If the Ugly Animals Preservation Society doesn't have a parade balloon yet, idk what theyre waiting for.

Really? I find the Axolotl to be amazingly beautyfull animals. I don't understand how
anyone could see them as "ugly".
I'm surprised to see that some EPICLY ugly animals weren't even contending:
-Surinam Toad; Godawefully ugly, flat toad. Looks like a toad that got the bubonic plague,
then got run over by a truck and was then left to dry & shrivel in the dessert sun for 3 days.
-Goblin Shark: May well be the most hideous creature alive. Looks like the infection of
Resident Evil entered the oceans & mutated the great white shark into something even more sisister.

How were these 2 ghastly animals excluded from this contest?

I thought he looked very sad and had a face only a mother could love, .

Dito, they are really cute:



http://youtu.be/LeX2Fsy6WxQ?t=1m48s

That isn't ugly at all. It just looks like some happy, cute, hyperspace entity.

If the blobfish is the Ugliest Animal then what can they call this one

Ugliest animal´s bigger brother...?

Yeah, that guy could use a serious makeover.