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:
And here’s the official announcement:
