Top 24 Ugliest Animals in the World

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Pig-Nosed Turtle

Facts

• Family: Carttochelydiae
• Habitat: New Guinea, Australia

Appearance

The turtle with a trunk

A little underwater pig? Just kidding! The nose of the pig-nosed turtle looks like a little pig snout. This turtle uses it to snorkel and as a kind of motion sensor to sense prey moving about in the water.

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Pig-Nosed Turtle - Photo: pitcharee/Shutterstock

• Table of Contents:
• 0. Introduction
• 1. Proboscis Monkey
• 2. Northern Elephant Seal
• 3. Golden Snub-Nosed Monkey
• 4. Aardvark
• 5. Blobfish
• 6. Pig-Nosed Turtle
• 7. Tarsier
• 8. Wolffish
• 9. Naked Mole Rat
• 10. Andean Condor
• 11. Tapir
• 12. White-Faced Saki
• 13. California Condor
• 14. Cantor's Giant Softshell Turtle
• 15. Anteater
• 16. Horseshoe Bat and more