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.
From vivid greens to glowing pinks, the colours of the aurora borealis fill the night sky above a snow covered Lapland .
COURAGEOUS CLIMBERS scale frozen waterfalls in Canada, as the ice threatens to collapse beneath them .
AN American accountant has grown the world's biggest MELON and smashed his way into the record books with his mammoth 350 .
A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy .
Beautiful turquoise waves rise and fall in a series of stunning images taken along the coastline of south-eastern Australia .
A chipmunk, with his cheeks full to bursting, has no intention of leaving with an empty stomach .
FULL OF STUNNING colours and swirling shapes, the furrows on these fields create a mix of mesmerising patterns .
A BIKINI swim with jellyfish sounds like the most painful past-time on the planet .
A once bustling gold rush town in Mono County, California now stands completed deserted .
BEHIND the doors of this building, with its stacks of mattresses and discarded remains of wheelchairs, lies another victim of austerity cuts .
A German photographer travelled around Africa where he met and photographed members of tribes in a series of intimate portraits .
THIS is the incredible moment a pelican throws a fish into the air and SLAM DUNKS it into its enormous throat sack .