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.
This is the moment a nimble red fox and a lumbering Alaskan brown bear were locked in a tense stand-off .
Balanced on one leg, a frog assumes the crane kick martial arts stance made famous in the movie The Karate Kid .
STAIRWAY obsessed photographers have captured psychedelic shots that will mesmerise you .
SOME OF the sea’s most terrifying creatures show their softer side as they join a group of diners for lunch .
COURAGEOUS CLIMBERS scale frozen waterfalls in Canada, as the ice threatens to collapse beneath them .
This longhorn beetle demon-strates a dark side as it looks just like the devil .
STARING eagerly into the camera, this little toad is full of curiosity .
LIKE A living balloon this baitball of sardines is ready to burst when threatened by a pointy nosed sailfish .
SAILING peacefully across a river in the early morning light, a fisherman in China keeps a 1000 year old tradition alive .
THIS RING of fire in the sky is the annular solar eclipse that wowed our cousins down-under .
PRANKSTER Dom Joly was so livid when he was slapped with a parking ticket that he took to Twitter to vent his anger – only to discover he was the victim of his own gag! The comic got a taste of his own medicine when he was tricked by a fellow joker for the first time in a decade .
AT first glance these images could easily be mistaken for photographs, but they are in-fact real life drawings created using nothing but coloured pencils .