The Ugly Animals Preservation Society, for example, uses a touring stand-up comedy show to highlight the plight of animals like the blobfish, ...

Ugly animals deserve to be saved, too. The cheetahs, elephant, and panda are all members of the National Zoo’s captive breeding programs, and they’re pretty typical for such conservation efforts.

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The Ugly Animal Preservation Society has a new mascot: the blobfish. The gelatinous deep-sea dweller was voted the world's ugliest animal beating out the big-nosed proboscis monkey, the "scrotum ...

Ugly animals often have other value – some, like the blobfish or the naked mole rat, live in extreme environments that they have adapted to in remarkable ways.

The hooded seal is just one of 60 animals included in his book, “Ugly Animals: We Can’t All Be Pandas,” out today, which profiles exceptionally unattractive endangered animals and offers ...

It’s time the gob-faced squid and taildropper slug got the attention they deserve, argues Simon Watt, creator of the Ugly Animal Preservation Society In my job as a science presenter, I get ...

While there are plenty of conservation efforts and community love for cute marsupials like the western ringtail possum, ...

The public has voted, and the sad-faced blobfish has been declared the ugliest endangered animal on the planet. Some have said the gelatinous deep-sea dweller that can grow up to 12 inches long ...