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Voters Crown the ‘World’s Ugliest Animal’ as New Zealand’s Fish of the Year
The blobfish is specially adapted to life in the deep ocean, but it looks like a shapeless blob when brought to the surface.
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Guy Picks Up an Incredible Sea Shell From The Red Sea — But Many Think He's Lucky To Be Alive
The man collected the seashell while snorkeling in Egypt's Red Sea, totally unaware that the shell was teeming with life.
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Australia’s beaches recover from Ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred as extreme weather intensifies
The tropical storm that hit eastern Australia's shores battered many beaches along a 300-mile stretch of coastline that draws ...
‘Icarus of deep’: how dying anglerfish became social media sensation
Photographer David Jara Boguná filmed a humpback anglerfish (Melanocetus johnsonii, a species of black seadevil) swimming ...
Blobfish, once dubbed 'world's ugliest animal,' named fish of the year in New Zealand
Once dubbed the "world's ugliest animal," the blobfish – scientific name Psychrolutes marcidus – has been named New Zealand's ...
Blob is beautiful! Once labelled world's ugliest animal, blobfish become New Zealand's fish-of-the-year
Beauty is subjective. What one person finds ugly, another might find fascinating or even endearing. A case that has applied for the blobfish. They were once declared the world's ugliest animal, but ...