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...
DIVING down at a speed of 75mph, this is the moment a hungry osprey caught his prey .
While often referred to as the kings of the jungle, gorillas - for all their might - are notorious hydrophobes .
An artist has transformed traditional Thanksgiving dinners into mini-masterpieces .
A proud gorilla mum welcomes her newborn baby western lowland gorilla, a critically endangered species .
WITH A wide smile plastered across his face, this little gecko is ready for his close up .
A little brown bear cub shows his doting mum that she is always on parent duty as he uses her as a scratching post .
An intrepid explorer hopes to be reunited with his travel partner, after his cuddly toy companion was stolen .
An Italian photographer travelled to northern India where he visited poverty stricken suburbs and captured ordinary people in a series of intimate and expressive portraits .
HUDDLED together on a branch, a pair of adorable Javan scops owls soak up the sun .
What lies beneath this building site? Britain's great hope of winning the pre-WW2 arms race against Nazi Germany .
An Italian photographer travelled to Chile where he visited several star-gazing sites, home to some of the world's most advanced telescopes, located in the spectacular setting of the Atacama desert .
Dogs catch waves at the Coronado Bay dog surf championships Saturday 22nd June 2013- DOG SURFING mutts have never looked so gnarly .