The gelatinous-looking blobfish has been voted the ugliest animal in the world, but this isn’t quite fair: in its natural environment 2000–4000 feet under the sea, the blobfish looks like any other fish. But it lacks both a skeleton and any muscle, so as it rises to the surface of the ocean and the pressure drops drastically, the air sacs in its body inflate, making the blobfish saggy, droopy – in a word, blobby. Blobby though it may be up above, it is extremely resistant to the cold waters of the deep sea – its name comes from the Greek psychrolouteo, meaning ”to have a cold bath” – where it can live for up to 130 years, feeding on invertebrates and carrion that float down from the top layers of the ocean.