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.
An American black bear mimics John Travolta’s famous Saturday Night Fever dance move by hurling its arm in the air .
AN American accountant has grown the world's biggest MELON and smashed his way into the record books with his mammoth 350 .
In the calm waters of Greenland, gigantic icebergs dwarf everything around them .
This may look like a monster car engine that will leave petrol heads in a spin, but it is in fact a rather snazzy looking COFFEE MACHINE .
A BEAUTIFUL sight for the eyes and the imagination, these liquid sculptures take shape in many different colours and formations .
Swimming side by side with divers, these manatees will do anything they can to stay warm .
YOU’VE heard of the northern lights now feast your eyes on the natural wonder of the SOUTHERN lights .
This was the chaotic scene when the driver of a 4x4 vehicle became periously trapped under his vehicle for an HOUR when it overturned after a crash on a busy motorway .
SAT ON top of a Brazilian turtle’s head, this little ladybird looks content as he studies his environment from a new height .
An Indonesian farmer is dragged through muddy water as he clings to the tails of two charging cows .