Ugly animals should be wildlife pin-ups

By Jessica Savage: ...Some ugly animals could even prove invaluable to the human species.
“The Naked Mole Rat are also very ugly and also almost extinct," said Mr Watt. "But work has been carried out by geneticists and proved that they are pain resistant and unable to get cancer.

_{Almost extinct - the Naked Mole Rat. (ALAMY)}
"Cancer research for humans has leapt forward as a result of this find and the mole rat no longer looks quite so ugly.”...Read here...