A little boy was left fighting for his life in hospital after a horrific allergic reaction to epilepsy medication made his skin fall off in chunks. Five-year-old Ellis Stacey developed a one-in-a-million condition that gripped his body, covering his skin in agonising blisters. Within days, the skin on his face, back, arms and legs had peeled off. His devastated parents, Kayleigh Drayton, 25, and aerospace technician Carl Stacey, 26, were warned that he could die within days as the condition ravaged his body.
SITTING quietly at the edge of the lake, these two baby bears watch and learn as the adults hunt for fish .
A young orangutan comes over all shy as she hides her face behind a broken bucket .
Two dogs who couldn't keep their paws off each other have been united in matrimonial bliss after their owners shelled out $10,000 on a lavish canine wedding ceremony .
With luminous colours and alien- like features, these magical mushrooms look like they belong on another planet .
From squids to Star Wars, these flipping marvellous creations are pancake portraits .
Bryanna Debinder, 20, from Pennsylvania in the USA, has lost 7 stone in order to impress her idol .
A woman whose face and body was left scarred for life by angry sores, caused by Lupus, has become a diversity model .
FISTS fly as two gorillas take each other on in a dramatic battle .
A feisty squirrel takes on a fearsome foe when he decides to tackle a T-REX .
STAR-TI-LING: 40,000 STARLINGS MIMIC HITCHCOCK'S THE BIRDS- This could be the fearsome scene from Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds as a flock of 40,000 starlings bask in the heat of a wonderful British sunset .