LIKE A scene from A Bugs Life, these ants work on creating their own mini community. Protecting each other from villains, these scenes could have easily come straight from a Disney film. These creative photographs were created by Russian ant photographer Andrey Pavlov, 56, after a mobility difficulty led him to see ants in a new light. ‘In 2005 I put my back out and I couldn't walk,’ says Andrey, of Vyborg.
AN American accountant has grown the world's biggest MELON and smashed his way into the record books with his mammoth 350 .
An Italian photographer travelled to Chile where he visited several star-gazing sites, home to some of the world's most advanced telescopes, located in the spectacular setting of the Atacama desert .
SAT ON top of a Brazilian turtle’s head, this little ladybird looks content as he studies his environment from a new height .
DIVING down at a speed of 75mph, this is the moment a hungry osprey caught his prey .
A carefree bear cub reclines in the water with his feet raised in the air .
SPURTING water 20ft into the air, this is one well you wouldn't want to dip your bucket into .
TENNIS was a game made for three according to the first Victorian rule book .
AN ANGRY giraffe gave a bush-riding cyclist a scare when he stomped his £2K bike into the dirt .
NATURE PAPARAZZIS prove you don't have to be Justin Bieber or Cheryl Cole to attract a pack of photographers .
A hungry hippo is seconds away from catching a bird in its gigantic jaws .
SWIMMING slowly towards the shore, a small group of bottlenose dolphins arrive for breakfast at a beach in Western Australia .