A soap bubble lands on the frosty ground and creates a shimmering snow globe as crystals form around it. Pictured under the winter sun, the bubbles glow as sunlight bounces off their surface. Photographer Hope Thurston Carter captured the images after blowing the soap bubbles on several freezing days in Michigan. The 52-year-old, of Martin, Michigan, says: 'I got the idea to blow bubbles outside in the winter after I saw several similar photos on the internet.
Swimming side by side with divers, these manatees will do anything they can to stay warm .
THIS astonishing film shows the moment a hit-and-run driver ploughed into a woman and a toddler on a Coventry street .
This hungry white tiger has just one thing on her mind - to taste fresh meat .
A disabled sheep is enjoying a new fleece of life after receiving a specially-designed wheelchair .
MEET the underwater British seal who is so friendly he loves to grapple divers like a friendly puppy dog .
Leaping out of the ocean, a group of gentoo penguins fly through the air before landing safely on an iceberg .
LIKE A living balloon this baitball of sardines is ready to burst when threatened by a pointy nosed sailfish .
A toddler has shrugged off death an incredible 10 times thanks to his parents who revive him with the kiss of life every two weeks .
STARING intently into the camera, a polar bear appears to be lost in thought while relaxing in the snow .
An Italian photographer travelled to the highlands of New Guinea where he met an Indonesian tribe untouched by the modern world .
In the calm waters of Greenland, gigantic icebergs dwarf everything around them .
SWIMMING slowly towards the shore, a small group of bottlenose dolphins arrive for breakfast at a beach in Western Australia .