It’s not everywhere that you might be rewarded for unappealing physical traits. But at the World’s Ugliest Dog contest, the uglier the pup, the better — and the Chinese crested dog often prevails.

Despite their name, experts don’t believe the Chinese Crested dog originated in China. It seems more likely to have emerged from Mexico, which is where Spanish explorers found them in the 1500s. You ...

PETALUMA, Calif. -- Some are born ugly, others achieve ugliness, and some have ugliness thrust upon them. In the case of Scooter, crowned the World's Ugliest Dog Friday, it appears to have been the ...

He’s a diamond in the ruff. A bald-bodied and deformed Chinese Crested pup with a penchant for sticking out his tongue was crowned this year’s ‘World’s Ugliest Dog’ at the annual competition Friday.

Pity the Chinese crested dog, whose scrawny, wrinkly appearance has drawn guffaws for hundreds of years. But revenge is sweet: Scientists report that the breed is among just a handful descending from ...

PETALUMA, Calif. — Yoda’s short tufts of hair, protruding tongue, and long, seemingly hairless legs were enough to earn it the World’s Ugliest Dog title at a Northern California fair. The 14-year-old ...

There's a new ugliest dog in the world! On Friday, NBC’s Kerry Sanders served as a judge at the 2022 World's Ugliest Dog contest in Petaluma, California, and helped crown a hairless Chinese ...

Scooter, a 7-year-old Chinese-crested dog, wowed judges on Friday to take home the “World’s Ugliest Dog” award. But there was a time where Scooter, whose tongue hangs from his mouth and is bald except ...

He was so ugly, he was actually cute, according to fans of Britain’s ugliest dog, a Chinese-crested hairless named Chase. His owner told the BBC that Chase, 16, with a cataract and no teeth, died of ...