A hungry hippo is seconds away from catching a bird in its gigantic jaws .

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

THIS alien-like bug would look more at home in outer-space but it can actually be found wriggling around here on Earth .

CLINGING onto nothing but ice, this brave climber reaches heights of 1000 FEET as he scales frozen solid waterfalls .

MEET the little lion of suburbia with a mane that makes him look like a mini-king of the jungle .

A Little owl looks down the lens of a camera and gives the photographer a cheeky wink .

A former cosmetic rep who swapped make-up for a career as a Marilyn Monroe lookalike has pocketed a staggering $4million (£2,630,000) as a full-time doppelgänger .

With luminous colours and alien- like features, these magical mushrooms look like they belong on another planet .

A cheeky chipmunk offers some of his spare food, before deciding against the idea and shoving the extra peanut into his already crammed mouth .

Andrea Kubinova, 30, from London, became great friends with serial killer and necrophiliac, Dennis Nilsen .

SITTING quietly at the edge of the lake, these two baby bears watch and learn as the adults hunt for fish .

A baby girl has become the youngest British patient to receive a life-saving cardiac operation after her heart swelled to twice its normal size within days of her birth .