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

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

 
 

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