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.
A man who conned tax officials out of £34 million and funded a lavish lifestyle of luxury hotels and restaurants has been jailed for one of the longest sentences in British criminal fraud history .
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This is the moment a nimble red fox and a lumbering Alaskan brown bear were locked in a tense stand-off .
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These photographs of extreme weather capture storms furiously rolling across the sky above America .
A trout manages to escape the jaws of a hungry cormorant - only to find itself back inside the bird's long beak .
HOPPING onto the scales, these adorable baby Humboldt penguins are ready for their first weigh-in .
DIVING down at a speed of 75mph, this is the moment a hungry osprey caught his prey .
A cheeky owl fancies a game of hide and seek as it peeps out from behind a tree .
A northern potoo shows it is a master of disguise as it perches on a tree stump and blends into the bark .