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.
These photographs of extreme weather capture storms furiously rolling across the sky above America .
PICKING up a tiny tea-pot with its paws, a little red squirrel struggles to prepare its morning tea .
A lively lemon shark grins into the camera and showcases his impressive teeth .
FLOATING effortlessly on his back, this little otter laps up a rare glimmer of English spring sunshine .
THIS alien-like bug would look more at home in outer-space but it can actually be found wriggling around here on Earth .
An Indonesian farmer is dragged through muddy water as he clings to the tails of two charging cows .
With an abandoned tricycle sitting in an empty corridor, this derelict but once grand mansion could be the setting for The Shining .
A TAXIDERMY truck spotted in America’s Deep South could be the most gruesome wagon on the road .
CAMPED out in the middle of a forest, these unusual hut hotels take you back to basics .
THIS may look like a dolphin through jumping hoops, but it is in fact nothing more than a clever 3D pencil drawing .
WITH LUSH GREEN LANDSCAPES stretching out as far as the eye can see, you're in for a treat at these one of a kind treehouses .
Balanced on one leg, a frog assumes the crane kick martial arts stance made famous in the movie The Karate Kid .