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Most people do not what a blobfish . It is the world's ugliest animal. It is also the new mascot of the Ugly Animal Preservation Society (UAPS). The UAPS 11 celebrities and comedians to a short video on what they was the ugliest creature on Earth. Thousands of people to decide the winner. UAPS president Simon Watt said he didn't want to a cute animal as the society's mascot. He wanted people to know that not-so-cute animals are also in danger. Mr Watt said: "We've an ugly face for endangered animals for a long time…For too long the cute and fluffy animals have the limelight." He thinks the blobfish will make people the uglier animals.

Blobfish in the seas and oceans near Australia and New Zealand. They largely on the seabed or ocean floor between 600 to 1,200 metres deep. They can up to 30 centimetres long. They have very large heads, small bodies and thin tails. Their name from the fact that they look like a large blob of jelly. This is because they have no muscles. They in the water and things that swim past them, like small crabs and shellfish. Even though humans do not eat blobfish (they are inedible), fishermen accidentally thousands each year. They are in the nets of fishing boats. Scientists are that this will the blobfish on the list of endangered animals.