WITH THEIR adorable big round eyes and fluffy white fur, these baby seals are cute enough to melt any heart. The harp seals, aged between two and ten-days-old, roll around in the snow and explore their new surroundings. The adorable scene was captured in the Gulf of St Lawrence, Canada by Belgian photographer Ellen Cuylaerts. The 44-year-old spent three days with the seals when she visited a breeding site earlier this month.
YOU’VE heard of the northern lights now feast your eyes on the natural wonder of the SOUTHERN lights .
Raising his arms above his head and lying flat on his back, a polar bear stretches as he sprawls out across the ice .
Scurrying along the branch of a tree, a little squirrel pushes a pram packed full of Easter treats .
A curious red squirrel takes a break from collecting nuts and tries her hand at photography .
Enjoying life’s little pleasures is something that many struggle to do .
THIS is the incredible moment a pelican throws a fish into the air and SLAM DUNKS it into its enormous throat sack .
A young otter wades through a lake with his eyes set on an older rival’s fish .
THIS is the shocking moment a clumsy radio newsreader plunged into a freezing canal while texting her boyfriend instead of looking where she was going .
BEHIND the doors of this building, with its stacks of mattresses and discarded remains of wheelchairs, lies another victim of austerity cuts .
SOARING through the air, a hungry white-tailed kite prepares to snatch a vole from his mother’s claws .
A little caterpillar fearlessly scampers down a branch and confronts a praying mantis .