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The Gobface Squid is tiny. It's about the size of a jam jar, maybe, thereabouts.

And it does look like it's got these terrifying human teeth.

Look, it looks like it's been to the dentist and come out of a proper set of gnashers.

The strange thing is that those teeth are

not teeth, they're actually its lips. Welcome to the BBC Earth podcast, the podcast that brings

you stories from the wide and wonderful natural world. Even the bits of it you might prefer

not to hear about. I'm Emily Knight. Yeah, stuff of nightmares. Like, you know, when you see these things that live deep down in the bottom of the ocean, they just look like they live deep down in the bottom of your psyche as all. Today, we're taking a look at beauty in the natural world. Things that are beautiful and things that very much aren't. Ugly like beauty is in the eye of the beholder. We can talk about the majesty of a whale, but we could also talk about the stupidness of a naked mole rat. We start the show today with a question. Honestly, who even cares about ugly animals? My name is Simon Watts, and I am president for life of the Ugly Animal Preservation Society. This guy does. So the ugly animal preservation society is not a real society.

It's a satirical society, though you can still join us.

I created it to try and give voice to those kind of more aesthetically challenged creatures

that are out there, because everybody knows the panda.

And I thought we need to get talking about things like the blobfish, like the dromedary jumping

slug, like the dugong,

creatures which are not blessed with the good looks and the good PR of those cute critters

that are out there already.

We run it like an election, democracy but more fun.

We get people to elect their own local mascot.

They're kind of local minger to represent their town.

So for instance, London is the proboscis monkey, which looks a bit

like Squidward, or maybe the sort of Geradepage of the primate world. It's got this enormous schnaws, and they use it for this great big honking call. And the bigger the schnaws, the more attractive they are. It's a sign of saying that they're the alpha, you know, come get me ladies, really, for this huge honk.

And it comes from Borneo, it needs our help just as much as the orangutan,

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