High up in the mountains and thousands of feet off the ground, a party of climbers were in for a shock as they came face to face with this frightening leap of faith .

AN ANGRY giraffe gave a bush-riding cyclist a scare when he stomped his £2K bike into the dirt .

A Crohn's sufferer has slammed doctors who allegedly accused her of being anorexic after she lost 10st in just three months .

SWOOPING down from the sky, this agitated eagle is looking for a fight .

A chipmunk, with his cheeks full to bursting, has no intention of leaving with an empty stomach .

BOXING DAY has come early for this pair of feisty squirrels, as their Christmas party quickly turns sour .

THIS is the shocking moment a clumsy radio newsreader plunged into a freezing canal while texting her boyfriend instead of looking where she was going .

This longhorn beetle demon-strates a dark side as it looks just like the devil .

A diver attempts to control rising numbers of lionfish by feeding the venomous species to Caribbean reef sharks .

FORGET Thorpe Park this summer as this is a 50 mile-per-hour ride over the Colorado River CANYON .

Pictures of John Anslow a prisoner who escaped from a prison escort van in North Worcestershire Monday, 23 January .

Surveying its surroundings, a tiny harvest mouse climbs the stem of a dandelion .