A grey whale and her calf greet an audience of awestruck admirers on the Pacific coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico. The magnificent mammals swim up to several boats full of tourists and get so close that the passengers can stroke the mother and baby whale. The special moment was photographed by lawyer Andrea Izzotti, 47, of Genovia, Italy. Andrea says: “The mother was milking her calf in shallow waters, but they are very curious animals and they came up to our boats to see the humans.
A Romanian photographer has captured the unique patterns of hundreds of human eyes in a series of striking macro shots .
SLEEPING within touching distance of wild African animals might not be everyone's idea of a relaxing break .
This longhorn beetle demon-strates a dark side as it looks just like the devil .
Exploding out of the water, a great white shark performs a backflip during a hunt for seals .
With blue waves tumbling over them, these surfers glide underneath a tunnel of water .
A lazy tree frog, tired of hopping along a branch, chooses the slowest form of transport when it jumps on top of an unsuspecting snail .
These photographs of extreme weather capture storms furiously rolling across the sky above America .
ALL IS not as it seems in these deceptive cityscapes .
A trio of ants are locked in a tug of war over a fly as they pull the bug by its legs .
WELCOME to the drawing room that is home to the £100K world’s greatest collection of Margaret Thatcher autographed objects .
Grandmother Janet Kirby was told she couldn't board her plane home after being accused of assault .
WITH his spiked ears and yellow and blue body, a colourful monkey bears an uncanny resemblance to Marvel Comics’ Wolverine .