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.
SWIMMING slowly towards the shore, a small group of bottlenose dolphins arrive for breakfast at a beach in Western Australia .
INSIDE Britain's last Naval hospital where scurvy was cured looks like an NHS time capsule .
SOARING through the air, this is the moment a hungry tawny owl arrives home with dinner .
Here's a APPY solution that should brighten up a wet weekend away camping - a wood powered stove that also recharges your smartphone .
WITH HIS PAW covering his mouth, this cheeky cub looks amused by something .
WIDE EYED with a huge smile across her face, this little elephant is a picture of happiness .
CONTRASTING settings reveal some of England’s most beautiful landscapes in all their glory .
A striped marlin means business as it spots lunch and spears a small fish .
CAMPED out in the middle of a forest, these unusual hut hotels take you back to basics .
In the calm waters of Greenland, gigantic icebergs dwarf everything around them .
Sam Notaro built his own flood defences to protect his four-bedroom home in Moorland, Somerset Flooding is likely to get worse around Somerset as groundwater levels continue to rise .
