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.
THIS BIGFOOT 'Jesus bird' may look silly, but he's perfectly designed for walking on water .
If you had to scrape the snow off your car this morning or slip-slide your way into work over icy pavements spare a thought for these little critters .
In the calm waters of Greenland, gigantic icebergs dwarf everything around them .
With no luck at the front of the bus, the deer runs around the center seats trying to escape through the window – THIS is the astonishing moment a DEER crashed through the front windshield of a bus before it went hysterically running around the vehicle .
IN a galaxy not so far away lies a magical display of lights that could be the latest image from NASA .
WITHOUT A care in the world, this little snow monkey puts his feet up and settles in for a snooze .
Swirling water and sand create amazing aerial images of river deltas across Iceland .
A proud gorilla mum welcomes her newborn baby western lowland gorilla, a critically endangered species .
A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy .
With the vivid red smoke billowing into the sky amid the misty sand dunes, these are the blissful views provided at the break of dawn at a volcano .
THESE kingfishers prove no rod is needed as they go fishing for their dinner .