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.
Fetching a tiny carrot and a head-shaped snowball, a red squirrel builds the perfect snowman .
THEIR gnarling teeth at the ready, these two baboons fight it out for the last piece of fruit .
Soldiers standing guard outside the Woolwich barracks in London - Two terror suspects are under armed guard in separate hospitals in London after a serving soldier was hacked to death in the street .
A hungry hippo is seconds away from catching a bird in its gigantic jaws .
STARING eagerly into the camera, this little toad is full of curiosity .
A diver attempts to control rising numbers of lionfish by feeding the venomous species to Caribbean reef sharks .
HUDDLING under a leaf, a pair of adorable Javan scops owls take shelter from the rain .
A TAXIDERMY truck spotted in America’s Deep South could be the most gruesome wagon on the road .
MESMERIZING night sky photographs offer a spellbinding look at the stars .
With blue waves tumbling over them, these surfers glide underneath a tunnel of water .
PERCHED on a branch, these two frogs hold hands as they look into the camera .
A grey whale and her calf greet an audience of awestruck admirers on the Pacific coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico .