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 rare manuscript of one of Charlotte Bronte’s earliest poems went under the hammer today and fetched nearly £100,000 – double what it was expected to get .
With one hand rested on his belly and the other propping his head up, this lazy lizard takes an afternoon break .
A mining town in Australia’s outback appears to be completely deserted, but its residents have escaped the scorching heat by living in underground caves .
CLIMBING, falling and tugging on his weary mum, this little orangutan is up to all kinds of trouble .
Megan Brailsford, 32, from Cambridgeshire, met Daniel Dugdale, 29, in September 2020 .
WITH LUSH GREEN LANDSCAPES stretching out as far as the eye can see, you're in for a treat at these one of a kind treehouses .
HUNDREDS of colour coordinated yarns lie abandoned in this once thriving textile mill .
BASKING in smug satisfaction, a confident squirrel gives a wink to the camera .
A young otter wades through a lake with his eyes set on an older rival’s fish .
This longhorn beetle demon-strates a dark side as it looks just like the devil .
An osprey soars through the air at 30 miles per hour before swooping down to catch its prey from a lake .