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.
With luminous colours and alien- like features, these magical mushrooms look like they belong on another planet .
BEHIND the doors of this building, with its stacks of mattresses and discarded remains of wheelchairs, lies another victim of austerity cuts .
RACING through the mountain range on horseback, the Kazakh people practice their ancient tradition of hunting with golden eagles .
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SOME OF the sea’s most terrifying creatures show their softer side as they join a group of diners for lunch .
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DASHING through the snow, this little stoat is on the lookout for a Christmas feast .
WELCOME to the 125 decibel boombox bus that could damage your hearing if you party too close to its giant speakers .
Exploding out of the water, a great white shark performs a backflip during a hunt for seals .
COURAGEOUS climbers descend 400 metres as they manoeuvre their way through thick walls of ice .
The aurora lights captured in Blair Nebraska, America - WITH electrifying purple and illuminous green brightening up the night sky, this is the rare moment a flash of 'sprite' lightening was captured on camera .