Let me introduce you to the Blob fish, which won the award for the world’s ugliest fish in 2013. On the 12th (local time), BBC News attracted attention by revealing that the Ugly Animal Conservation Society had selected the blob fish as the ugliest animal in the world. The blob is called the ‘ugliest fish in the world’.

Appearance Of blob fish

It is a fish with a funny appearance and a sticky body like a fishtail. The fish, first discovered in 2003, has a funny appearance. Blob is a rare fish that is currently on the verge of extinction due to trawl-net capture.

The blob is called the ‘ugliest fish in the world’. Blob fish is a deep-sea fish that lives at 600-1,200m under the sea off the island of Tasmania and Australia. It is a fish with a funny appearance and a sticky body like a fishtail.

Following the blob fish, the New Zealand flightless parrot Kakapo, the Mexican salamander Axolotl, and the scrotum frog from Lake Titicaca in the Andes were selected as the ugliest animals.

Netizens who came across the list of the ugliest animals said, The ugliest animal is really ugly. Don’t hate it even if it’s ugly.” “The ugliest animal is the 1st place. It seems to have a gentle personality, surprisingly.” “The ugliest animal is the 1st place. So we cannot judge any thing with appreance. There were reactions such as “No. 1 as the ugliest animal, what a shocking visual.
However, a post claiming that it was not actually strange and presenting photographic evidence became a hot topic in American internet communities.

In fact, this blob fish looks like a normal fish when it is in the deep sea where it originally lives. Its appearance just changes when it comes out of the sea surface.

 origin of blob

The blobfish is a deep-sea fish that lives at a depth of 1000m. But it is a perfectly fine fish in the deep sea. Its appearance is not much different from that of a common fish. However, a problem occurs when it is caught in a hurry. The pressure drops rapidly, causing serious damage to its body, resulting in it becoming an ‘ugly fish’.
It is a deep-sea fish found at depths of 600 to 1,300 meters in Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand.

As you can see in the image it is also nicknamed ‘Fathead’ or ‘Mr. Blobby’ due to its unique appearance. Their skin is not a hard structure, but rather a jelly-like state. which helps them adapt to life in the deep sea with high gravity, reducing their body density and maintaining buoyancy.

They also have almost no bones or muscles to adapt to the high pressure of the deep sea. so they take advantage of the phenomenon of dead animals or excrement falling to the deep sea like snow (sea snow phenomenon) to eat small dead animals or small crustaceans, molluscs, crabs, on the bottom.

The depth at which the blob fish lives is where the pressure is up to 120 times higher than sea level. If a human were to be exposed to that pressure. They would change into something like the blob fish.
Blob fish are often caught in the nets of trawler fishing vessels.

Some interesting Facts about blob fish are given below.

1.  They are known for their ugly faces. They are caught in the nets of these trawlers, their skin, which has adapted to the high pressures of the deep sea, becomes distorted due to the greatly reduced pressure.
2. They are not edible fish. if caught they are immediately released. The chances of them returning to the deep sea alive and safe are very slim.
3. It is widely known for its snub-nosed face and the way. it looks like drool dripping from its mouth.
4. By the way, the fish in the photo is also a blobfish. It is clearly different from the one you usually see floating around.
5. Blobfish live in very deep waters, from 600 to 1200 meters deep, off the coast of mainland Australia and Tasmania.
6. When you look at a blobfish out of the water, its skin tissue looks like jelly. This jelly-like flesh helps it adjust its buoyancy, allowing it to live in the deep sea without expending a lot of energy.
7. The jelly-like flesh maintains its shape in the deep sea due to strong water pressure. When the blobfish is pulled out to shallow waters or the sea surface. where the water pressure is low. it expands and collapses due to insufficient pressure.
8. It is similar to the principle of a balloon filled with helium gas and released into the sky, bursting. when the atmospheric pressure is lower than the internal pressure.

Blob fish population

Blob fish populations are threatened as people begin using bottom trawl nets (nets dragged along the ocean floor to catch deep-sea fish) to catch lobster and crab. There’s no need to feel sorry for the ugly blob fish. But if it’s been out long enough for its flesh to swell, it’s already dead.

Meanwhile, the reason why the Ugly Animal Protection Society selects ugly animals is to assert. That animals have the right to be protected regardless of their appearance. It is clear that the blobfish deserves protection regardless of its appearance.