Once dubbed the world's ugliest animal for its soft, lumpy appearance, the blobfish has made a stunning comeback: it was crowned this week as Fish of the Year by a New Zealand environmental group. The ...

"We and the people of New Zealand had had enough of other ... ten thousand Kiwis visited the website to learn about freshwater and marine fish that call our waters home,” says Jones.

Blobfish’s remarkable comeback story, from ‘world’s ugliest animal’ to New Zealand’s fish of the year - Ugly Animal ...

It has been a dramatic change of fortunes for the blobfish. Back in 2013, the gelatinous sea creature was declared the ...

But now it has been voted New Zealand’s “fish of the year ... “Many of our freshwater and marine fish are found nowhere else in the world. With climate change and land use patterns ...

The blobfish, once dubbed the "world's ugliest animal," has been named "Fish of the Year" by a New Zealand environmental group, the Mountain to Sea Conservation Trust, in an effort to raise awareness ...

The annual competition, held by the Mountain to Sea Conservation Trust, aims to raise awareness for New Zealand's freshwater and ... The gelatinous fish lives on the sea bed and grows to about ...