From vivid greens to glowing pinks, the colours of the aurora borealis fill the night sky above a snow covered Lapland. The elusive natural phenomenon, also known as the Northern Lights, was photographed by Lana Tannir when she was on a six day trip through northern Finland. The 24-year-old student visited Urho Kekkonen National Park, located in Saariselkä, Finland, as well as a nearby igloo village, named Kakslauttanen. Lana, of Starnberg, Germany, says “Seeing the Northern Lights cannot simply be described with only one emotion.
WITH his spiked ears and yellow and blue body, a colourful monkey bears an uncanny resemblance to Marvel Comics’ Wolverine .
SOARING through the air, this is the moment a hungry tawny owl arrives home with dinner .
HUDDLING under a leaf, a pair of adorable Javan scops owls take shelter from the rain .
FISTS fly as two gorillas take each other on in a dramatic battle .
Suspended FIFTY metres in the air, this is the last place that you would expect to find a fine dining experience .
A grey whale and her calf greet an audience of awestruck admirers on the Pacific coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico .
More weather chaos is heading our way, with ice and snow already hitting areas across Birmingham .
FULL OF STUNNING colours and swirling shapes, the furrows on these fields create a mix of mesmerising patterns .
An adorable orangutan named Pongo celebrates his first birthday at Zoo Atlanta, Georgia, America .
CARRYING a fully grown goat on his back, this five-year-old boy is a child shepherd in the mountains of northern Ethiopia .
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 .