Psychrolutes marcidus

Blobfish The saggy pink face voted World's Ugliest Animal in 2013 is a photo of an injury. The famous specimen, nicknamed Mr. Blobby, was netted on a 2003 research expedition between Australia and New Zealand, and its tissues fell apart on the way up from the deep. At home, roughly 3,300 to 4,400 feet down, the blobfish looks like a big-headed tadpole, as the drawing here shows. It has no gas bladder, little muscle and a weakly built skeleton, and a layer of mostly watery tissue likely gives it structure and buoyancy. The softness that ruins it at the surface is part of how it lives comfortably in the deep sea.