A little brown bear cub shows his doting mum that she is always on parent duty as he uses her as a scratching post. These adorable photographs of two playful bear cubs and their watchful mum were captured by American nature photographer D. Robert Franz, 56, on a visit to Lake Clark National Park, Alaska. 'What we see in these photographs is the interaction between the mother brown bear and her two cubs,' says D. Robert, of Cody, Wyoming.
A proud gorilla mum welcomes her newborn baby western lowland gorilla, a critically endangered species .
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 .
FROM a HOLLYWOOD actress to the face of an innocent child, these are incredible drawings with an unlikely twist .
Sitting all alone on drift ice in the Arctic Ocean, this lonely little fella looks lost .
A once bustling gold rush town in Mono County, California now stands completed deserted .
In the calm waters of Greenland, gigantic icebergs dwarf everything around them .
PERCHING on top of a gate, this young barn swallow waits patiently for his mum to return with dinner .
SAT with his arms folded and a cross look on his face, this Gorilla looks like he's had enough of the Christmas holidays already .
A BRITISH couple are the first to tie the knot inside an enormous GLACIER in Iceland .
OFFERING a glimpse into the past, a mash-up of old and new photographs show how the world’s biggest cities have changed .