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.
From a floating jelly fish to a relaxed seal, Britain’s unappreciated beach life is captured above and below the water .
Beautiful turquoise waves rise and fall in a series of stunning images taken along the coastline of south-eastern Australia .
BRAIDED, sculpted and beaded, these are the eye-catching hairstyles worn by the tribal women of Angola .
A young otter wades through a lake with his eyes set on an older rival’s fish .
A little brown bear cub shows his doting mum that she is always on parent duty as he uses her as a scratching post .
ROLLING around in the snow, these young brown bears take a break from their play fight to share a tender hug with one another .
Grandmother Janet Kirby was told she couldn't board her plane home after being accused of assault .
It’s a role reversal in the Visayan Sea as HUNDREDS of tiny, glistening eggs are carried around inside the mouth of their cardinalfish father .
THIS alien-like bug would look more at home in outer-space but it can actually be found wriggling around here on Earth .
PUSHING the diver out of his way, this little sea turtle shows he’s not in the mood for photographs .
Southern England, the south-west and west Wales have been warned to expect more wild weather, with heavy rain and high tides possibly leading to coastal flooding and travel disruption over the weekend .
BURSTING from the water, a beautiful but deadly Sumatran tiger jumps for food in an Indonesian zoo .