A doting seal smiles at her sweet little pup as she tickles its tummy on the beach. Lying on the sand, the seal gazes down at her fluffy baby as it playfully wriggles around underneath her flipper. The heart-warming scene was captured by 46-year-old photographer Elmar Weiss on a beach in Heligoland, Germany. Elmar, of Hamburg, Germany says: "I have never seen such a loving bond between a seal and her baby before...
HUDDLED together in the hollow of a tree, it would be easy to overlook these two sleepy owls as they blend into the trunk .
A lively lemon shark grins into the camera and showcases his impressive teeth .
MASKED intruders look sinister but really they are a gang of urban exploring pranksters .
PAWS for thought as you feast your eyes on this rare bear bathing session .
WHETHER FLOATING through space or diving underwater, a lucky baby boy enjoys once in a life time experiences - in his DREAMS .
ROLLING around in the snow, these young brown bears take a break from their play fight to share a tender hug with one another .
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 .
A diver explores the crystal clear waters of the Silfra canyon in southern Iceland, which is the only place on Earth where you can dive or snorkel between two continental plates .
What lies beneath this building site? Britain's great hope of winning the pre-WW2 arms race against Nazi Germany .
WELCOME to the pretty 122-inch-tall red dwelling that lays claim to the title of the UK's smallest house .
At least three people have been killed and more than 100 injured, some seriously, in two explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon .