Mary Bates, PhD

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What's the World's Ugliest Animal?

The votes are in—and the public has chosen the deep-sea blobfish to represent endangered ugly animals everywhere.The sagging, gelatinous creature is the new mascot of the Ugly Animal Preservation Society, which draws attention to the need to conserve animals of all shapes and sizes.Check out more at my latest National Geographic Weird & Wild post, and see who else made the top five ugliest animals.