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Blobfish Claims Unlikely Victory as New Zealand’s Fish of the Year
Understanding the Blobfish The blobfish (Psychrolutes marcidus) is a deep-sea fish that inhabits the waters off Australia and New Zealand, living at depths of around 600 to 1,200 meters. In its ...
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Blobfish’s remarkable comeback story, from ‘world’s ugliest animal’ to New Zealand’s fish of the year
Kim Jones, co-director of the Mountains to Sea Conservation Trust, said it was “a battle of two quirky deep-sea critters, with the blobfish’s unconventional beauty helping get voters over the ...
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Blobfish overcomes notoriety as ‘world’s ugliest animal’ to win New Zealand’s ‘fish of the year’
It has been a dramatic change of fortunes for the blobfish. Back in 2013, the gelatinous sea creature was declared the world’s ugliest animal. But now it has been voted New Zealand’s “fish ...