A little clownfish opens its mouth to reveal a blood sucking intruder living on its tongue. The louse-like parasite, which entered through the gills of the small fish, is now so big that its stripy, orange host can barely close its mouth. The unfortunate clownfish was spotted by 44-year-old photographer and law professor Lars Oliver Michaelis in the shallow waters of the Lembeh Strait in North Sulawesi, Indonesia.
CAMPED out in the middle of a forest, these unusual hut hotels take you back to basics .
Swimming side by side with divers, these manatees will do anything they can to stay warm .
A TAXIDERMY truck spotted in America’s Deep South could be the most gruesome wagon on the road .
HOTSPOT MEDIA - FUNKY BUMP: FROM MIRROR bellies to rainbow bumps these pregnancy casts of stone and bronze could be the funkiest way to preserve your bump for posterity .
Sitting all alone on drift ice in the Arctic Ocean, this lonely little fella looks lost .
COURAGEOUS CLIMBERS scale frozen waterfalls in Canada, as the ice threatens to collapse beneath them .
A makeup artist from the West Midlands magically transforms herself into famous cartoon characters using body paint .
This longhorn beetle demon-strates a dark side as it looks just like the devil .
Playing, splashing and generally messing around, these polar bears show they certainly have a soft spot for the water, and not just each other .
LYING back in the snow, these two polar bears share a cuddle as they call time out on playtime .
This is the moment a nimble red fox and a lumbering Alaskan brown bear were locked in a tense stand-off .