As it is clear that the moniker "blobfish" is no longer fit for purpose (after all the fish isn't normally a blob), we shall now only refer to the fish, Psychrolutes marcidus, by its common name ...

The blobfish went viral with this photo, but underwater they look like a completely different fish. They sustain tissue damage when they're brought from the ocean's depths to the surface.

The blobfish recently took home honors as the “ World’s Ugliest Animal.” But how ugly is it, really? When you consider that the photo that people voted for was of a decompressed specimen ...

This sea creature may have just experienced the "ugly duckling" glowup of the fish world. Once dubbed the "world's ugliest animal," the blobfish – scientific name Psychrolutes marcidus – has ...

An amphibious mouse with webbed feet and an unsightly blob-headed fish are among the more than two dozen new species discovered by scientists in a remote region of the Peruvian Amazon rainforest.

The blobfish looks like the name sounds: a slimy blob of a fish with more face than fin. The oddly proportioned animal — it grows to about 12 inches maximum — is a deep-sea dweller off the ...

There’s ugly, and then there’s ugly. Voters for the ugliest animal chose wisely, picking the gelatinous blobfish as the world’s least attractive creature.

The blobfish—that frowning pile of goop up there—was once crowned the world’s ugliest animal. The run-off was led by the Ugly Animal Preservation Society. In 2013, the Ugly Animal ...

A New Zealand-based nonprofit announced the blobfish as the winner of its "Fish of the Year" vote, years after it was named the world's ugliest animal.