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...
A pair of chicks bravely decided to befriend a python, despite being the snake's favourite choice of food .
YOU’VE heard of the northern lights now feast your eyes on the natural wonder of the SOUTHERN lights .
FLYING through the air, these delighted pooches pull their best poses mid-flight .
A diver looks like a minnow as she swims alongside a gigantic whale shark, the largest species of fish on the planet .
WITH HIS PAW covering his mouth, this cheeky cub looks amused by something .
INSIDE Britain's last Naval hospital where scurvy was cured looks like an NHS time capsule .
The aurora lights captured in Blair Nebraska, America - WITH electrifying purple and illuminous green brightening up the night sky, this is the rare moment a flash of 'sprite' lightening was captured on camera .
MESMERIZING night sky photographs offer a spellbinding look at the stars .
NEW DELHI, A woman activist of India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party crosses a police barricade near the residence of ruling Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi during a protest against the recent rape of a five-year-old girl in New Delhi, India, April 21, 2013 .
A German photographer travelled around Africa where he met and photographed members of tribes in a series of intimate portraits .
This tranquil setting stretches for miles as the sun sets behind the mountain .