Surveying its surroundings, a tiny harvest mouse climbs the stem of a dandelion. The adorable rodent, which is just 55mm long, is dwarfed by the flower and covered with dandelion seeds. The harvest mouse was photographed by maintenance engineer Martin Snelson when he visited a farm in Ashton-in-Makerfield and spotted the curious creature.
A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy .
Blonde teen Jess Stubbs has certainly got girl power - as Britain’s youngest TRUCKER .
Families in an Indian slum put their lives on the line by living on top of an ACTIVE railway track .
A NINJA red squirrel cuts a dashing figure as the little fella jumps up to ten-feet between treetops in the Yorkshire Dales .
Playing, splashing and generally messing around, these polar bears show they certainly have a soft spot for the water, and not just each other .
A BABY-faced burglar is starting a seven year stretch in custody after being nabbed by a Jaffa Cake .
AN American accountant has grown the world's biggest MELON and smashed his way into the record books with his mammoth 350 .
PERCHED on a branch, these two frogs hold hands as they look into the camera .
Ever wished you could live in a house just like Barbie's? Canadian sculptor Heather Benning has created the life-size dollhouse of her dreams out a derelict building .
HOPPING onto the scales, these adorable baby Humboldt penguins are ready for their first weigh-in .
A lazy tree frog, tired of hopping along a branch, chooses the slowest form of transport when it jumps on top of an unsuspecting snail .
Sam Notaro built his own flood defences to protect his four-bedroom home in Moorland, Somerset Flooding is likely to get worse around Somerset as groundwater levels continue to rise .