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 incredible shimmer of silver fish mirrors the image of that of an underwater tornado .
TENNIS was a game made for three according to the first Victorian rule book .
It’s a role reversal in the Visayan Sea as HUNDREDS of tiny, glistening eggs are carried around inside the mouth of their cardinalfish father .
COULD this be the most distastrous wedding cake fail EVER? Most brides opt for a traditional tiered white wedding cake decorated with delicate pink roses and lace for their big day .
Raising his arms above his head and lying flat on his back, a polar bear stretches as he sprawls out across the ice .
SAT ON top of a Brazilian turtle’s head, this little ladybird looks content as he studies his environment from a new height .
MEET the little lion of suburbia with a mane that makes him look like a mini-king of the jungle .
This is the moment a nimble red fox and a lumbering Alaskan brown bear were locked in a tense stand-off .
These images of vintage cars, bikes and vans, pictured all over the world, could easily have come from a globetrotting petrol-head’s photo album .
In the calm waters of Greenland, gigantic icebergs dwarf everything around them .
