UG-leeeee!

Naked_mole_ratHooo-EEEEE!

Man!

That thing will break mirrors, won’t it!

This here critter is a naked mole rat, as you may know, and it has been voted one of the top 10 ugliest animals on LiveScience.Com.

Personally, I don’t agree with all the votes.

In fact, the contest has an INEXPLICABLE omission: It left out the ugliest critter of all time, the sanity-shattering STAR-NOSED MOLE.

Nevertheless, there’s some critters over at LiveScience.Com whose visages will curdle milk, make paint peel, and send small children scurrying away in fright.

AMBLE BY AND GAWK AT THEM!

Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

11 thoughts on “UG-leeeee!”

  1. If I am not mistaken. Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe Naked Mole rats can chew through concrete and can wreak havoc on foundations of houses. Can anyone tell me if I am correct?

  2. I thought naked mole rats were cute little things that helped teenage heroines save the world…
    Either that, or too much Disney Channel around my house.

  3. Yes, JohnH . . . Rufus is a lie. Sadly. I had my bubble burst around the time Jimmy first posted on the star-nosed mole (what is it with moles, anyway?) when I got an issue of ZooNooz from the San Diego Zoo society I belong to & they featured a naked mole rat in all his translucent pink, toothy glory on the cover! (SIGH) I’d love to have a pet naked mole rat who could consume mass quantities of Bueno Nacho!
    Oh, & do kung fu. That’s a plus!

  5. The Aye-aye has got to be the ugliest creature of all. Not only does it look like a denizen of Dante’s Inferno, the Aye-aye sports one incredibly long finger on each front paw. *shudders*

  6. But, you know, you add a little eye-liner and it looks eerily like one of my ex-girlfriends.

  9. Man you must have dated some ugly chicks.
    Don,
    Naw, I really wasn’t much into poultry (rimshot).
    In my case, I have a face made for radio and a voice made for print. Thankfully, my wife is on the other end of that spectrum. Sometimes, though, I wonder if she lost some sort of a bet.

  10. I have to concur with some of the others. I immediately thought of Rufus from Disney’s Kim Possible. I didn’t know that there really was such a species. I thought that they had just made it up for the show.
    As long as I’m in a linking mood, don’t forget the Rufus screensaver. That’s right, you too can have an animated naked mole rat for a screensaver! Now I need to find that silly song Disney did about Rufus… 😉

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