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.
THIS DANGER-mad female pensioner could be the oldest Brit to cage dive with CROCODILES .
The beds are consumed by moss instead of customers at this abandoned hotel .
A BLIND man was battered with a brick in a sickening attack by two thugs .
HUDDLING under a leaf, a pair of adorable Javan scops owls take shelter from the rain .
WITH SNOW COVERING the ground around them, these two polar bears play fight .
Like a scene from a fairytale, THOUSANDS of fireflies create an enchanting glow as they dance in a forest .
A photographer has captured stunning photographs of the Milky Way above picturesque landscapes in the UK and Italy .
WELCOME to what could be the world's tallest TOTALLY wooden construction .
A Birmingham man inspired by sci-fi film Wall-E, has created a one- wheeled vehicle, controlled by signals from his BRAIN .
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LIFTING their heads high and bumping beaks, these aggressive pelicans clash over fish .