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.
NOT YOUR everyday selfie, this plucky diver poses with some of the scariest predators in the ocean .
BRAIDED, sculpted and beaded, these are the eye-catching hairstyles worn by the tribal women of Angola .
IT'S the iconic TV show that influenced a whole generation in the 1990s .
From vivid greens to glowing pinks, the colours of the aurora borealis fill the night sky above a snow covered Lapland .
HUNDREDS of colour coordinated yarns lie abandoned in this once thriving textile mill .
A Brit photographer has captured one of the world's most camera-shy species of fish - during a game of underwater peek-a-boo .
VIBRANT bursts of colour fill the screen as beautiful flowers blossom in these time-lapse videos .
THIS is the EXPLOSIVE moment when a 50 metre high pylon came crashing down to earth in a rural field .
A brave leopard kicks back and relaxes in the sunshine - just inches from an enormous crocodile .
Animal rescue volunteers have told how a cat riddled with cancer was forced to ripped off its own ears after it was abandoned by its owners .
