OPEN mouthed and wide eyed this little squirrel appears startled. Taken aback, he sits with his hands clasped and jaw dropped. The surprised eastern grey squirrel was photographed by Lithuanian photographer Giedrius Stakauskas, 38, on a trip to Bushy Park in London. ‘Even though his little face looks like he’s in a state of complete surprise, he was actually yawning and very sleepy,’ says Giedrius, now of London.
A rare manuscript of one of Charlotte Bronte’s earliest poems went under the hammer today and fetched nearly £100,000 – double what it was expected to get .
WITH the phosphorescent blobs and mesmerising patterns, these spectacular images may look like the hall marks of an enchanted forest but it is in fact the scene of thousands of dancing FIREFLIES .
BOXING DAY has come early for this pair of feisty squirrels, as their Christmas party quickly turns sour .
AT first glance these images could easily be mistaken for photographs, but they are in-fact real life drawings created using nothing but coloured pencils .
A photographer has captured spellbinding images of stars swirling above the English countryside .
Going for long rides through vast fields together, this twosome share an unbreakable bond .
Exploding out of the water, a great white shark performs a backflip during a hunt for seals .
A pair of adorable polar bear cubs play-fight with each other in the Alaskan snow .
A BLIND man was battered with a brick in a sickening attack by two thugs .
Throwing their arms up in the air, these energetic squirrels play a game of ball with a walnut .
Some will get up close and personal with Mother Nature’s deadliest animals to get the perfect shot, posing the question, what lengths will a photographer go to for that all important picture? But in this case, the question should be what depths .
Complete with core, mantle and crust, these incredible planet cakes are truly out of this world .