Swimming side by side with divers, these manatees will do anything they can to stay warm. The gentle giants have travelled 300 miles from the cold winter waters of the Gulf of Mexico to the springs of Crystal River, Florida. For manatees, it is vital they retain as much body heat as possible, otherwise their digestive systems can shut down. Belgian photographer Ellen Cuylaerts visited the lumbering 1,200lb creatures in the Crystal River National Wildlife Refuge, where sick manatees are rescued and given care and surgery to get them back in the wild.
ROLLING around in the snow, these young brown bears take a break from their play fight to share a tender hug with one another .
STEPFORD wives from the 1950's and 60's are performing history's most sexist exercise programme .
A BIKINI swim with jellyfish sounds like the most painful past-time on the planet .
A PENSIONER was left with a fractured jaw after being beaten and robbed outside his home in Birmingham last weekend .
A German photographer travelled around Africa where he met and photographed members of tribes in a series of intimate portraits .
A young otter wades through a lake with his eyes set on an older rival’s fish .
HIDDEN in the middle of the Mojave Desert, a secret oasis awaits intrepid travellers .
Animal rescue volunteers have told how a cat riddled with cancer was forced to ripped off its own ears after it was abandoned by its owners .
If you had to scrape the snow off your car this morning or slip-slide your way into work over icy pavements spare a thought for these little critters .
The gunslingers are long gone and tumbleweeds have taken over at this abandoned American Wild West Theme Park in Cornwall .
With blue waves tumbling over them, these surfers glide underneath a tunnel of water .
