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.
From a floating jelly fish to a relaxed seal, Britain’s unappreciated beach life is captured above and below the water .
A SPECTACULAR array of stars fills the night sky as they soar over this active volcano .
Most people bend over backwards to keep children entertained, but this baboon show us how it’s done .
THIS is the shocking moment a clumsy radio newsreader plunged into a freezing canal while texting her boyfriend instead of looking where she was going .
An adorable little squirrel wakes from a nap and pops out his tongue for the camera .
Swirling water and sand create amazing aerial images of river deltas across Iceland .
WITH HIS PAW covering his mouth, this cheeky cub looks amused by something .
What lies beneath this building site? Britain's great hope of winning the pre-WW2 arms race against Nazi Germany .
Raising his arms above his head and lying flat on his back, a polar bear stretches as he sprawls out across the ice .
PICKING up a tiny tea-pot with its paws, a little red squirrel struggles to prepare its morning tea .
A cheeky chipmunk offers some of his spare food, before deciding against the idea and shoving the extra peanut into his already crammed mouth .
WITH STUNNING colours and serene scenes, these photographs capture the otherworldly beauty of the English coast .