A little clownfish opens its mouth to reveal a blood sucking intruder living on its tongue. The louse-like parasite, which entered through the gills of the small fish, is now so big that its stripy, orange host can barely close its mouth. The unfortunate clownfish was spotted by 44-year-old photographer and law professor Lars Oliver Michaelis in the shallow waters of the Lembeh Strait in North Sulawesi, Indonesia.
A pair of adorable polar bear cubs play-fight with each other in the Alaskan snow .
This cheeky macaque gets up close and personal as he examines the dental hygiene of his fellow primate .
A hungry hippo is seconds away from catching a bird in its gigantic jaws .
A panic stricken kitten that got her head stuck in a car tyre has been freed by quick thinking RSPCA staff .
IN THE not so MISTY MOUNTAINS of Wiltshire, there lies an abandoned hobbit house .
A SPECTRUM of colours fills the sky during this spectacular and natural display of light .
Armed with a snorkel, flippers and her skimpy bikini, an intrepid female free diver swims alongside an array of reef sharks .
Fishermen in Myanmar have perfected an unusual fishing technique by carefully balancing on one leg .
FROM motorcycling to department store shopping these spookily faceless people are part of the Chinese-fad for wearing protective solar-visors in public .
Soldiers standing guard outside the Woolwich barracks in London - Two terror suspects are under armed guard in separate hospitals in London after a serving soldier was hacked to death in the street .
A couple have tied the knot in a spectacular Harry Potter-themed wedding which cost £45,000 .
SWIMMING in unison, millions of silverside fish dwarf the divers .