"Breathtaking", "beautiful", "nature's wonders" - aren't we used to these expressions? There seem to be unlimited articles with pictures of nature's most beautiful places, birds, animals and flowers.
What about the ugliest animals?
Definitely the Turkey Vulture would pop up on the list in my neighbourhood. They fly overhead every day and if you see one at the side of the road, it is a bit of a shocking sight in such contrast to the beautiful flying and soaring overhead.
Then the list goes through the expected candidates - star-nosed moles, mole rats, proboscis monkey, snake necked turtle, bats - particularly the horseshoe bat, and what about elephant seals? There's an ugly frog, the warthog, and the hyena.
They don't seem so ugly as something towards a bit strange. But then consider the blobfish - it is often considered the ugliest. It looks more like a grumpy Bob-fish. And the Monkfish - that is a bit prehistoric and so for me falls into ugly land. I think we would run from the Japanese spider crab - a crab-sized spider would be creepy. There are pictures of them all HERE. And we haven't started on the insect world at all. These ugly animals were on the good news website called goodgoodgood.co.
And what about those ugly flowers? They seem to think that Pitcher plants, and corpse flowers such as Titan Arum are the ugly looking flowers - but they stink worse than they look. I have seen a Black bat flower in bloom and thought it was beautiful rather than alien/ugly. And I've seen the Dutchman's Pipe plant blooming and it is strange looking. All of these dark flowered plants seem to also be stinky. And that seems to make for the experience of ugly. Dad: When you are in a garden, which flower will you pick?
Little Johny: The ugly ones | 
