ARMED with her camera, bikini and flippers, this brave diver goes swimming with SHARKS. The diver fearlessly swims with grey reef sharks, blacktip reef sharks and whitetip reef sharks off the coast of Yap in the western Pacific Ocean. American ocean photojournalist Tim Rock captured the breath-taking photographs on a diving trip with professional dive tour instructor and model Yoko Higashide. The 64-year-old photographer, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, said: “Vertigo Reef, along the north-western shores of the island of Yap in Micronesia, is a perfect venue to watch reef sharks.
SHOVELLING food into his mouth, this hungry gorilla enjoys a peaceful moment at dinner time .
THIS RING of fire in the sky is the annular solar eclipse that wowed our cousins down-under .
LEAF-ing much to the imagination, this camera trickery is blooming marvellous .
TENNIS was a game made for three according to the first Victorian rule book .
A diver attempts to control rising numbers of lionfish by feeding the venomous species to Caribbean reef sharks .
What lies beneath this building site? Britain's great hope of winning the pre-WW2 arms race against Nazi Germany .
Playing, splashing and generally messing around, these polar bears show they certainly have a soft spot for the water, and not just each other .
THIS BIGFOOT 'Jesus bird' may look silly, but he's perfectly designed for walking on water .
A cricket perches on an unusual seat after crawling up the snout of a crocodile .
IN THE not so MISTY MOUNTAINS of Wiltshire, there lies an abandoned hobbit house .
A Birmingham man inspired by sci-fi film Wall-E, has created a one- wheeled vehicle, controlled by signals from his BRAIN .