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...
With stunning scenery and otherworldly vistas, Iceland’s rural beauty is inescapable – especially for Hollywood .
AT 4,800 metres high and just three metres wide, this is the most dangerous road in the world .
THESE LOVE BIRDS can’t keep their beaks off each other as they share a very public display of affection .
An osprey soars through the air at 30 miles per hour before swooping down to catch its prey from a lake .
This cheeky chappie is getting into all kinds of monkey business as he enjoys cooling off on a scorching hot day .
A trio of ants are locked in a tug of war over a fly as they pull the bug by its legs .
With the vivid red smoke billowing into the sky amid the misty sand dunes, these are the blissful views provided at the break of dawn at a volcano .
SPLASHING around in a paddling pool, this little elephant soaks up the sunshine .
HUDDLED together in the hollow of a tree, it would be easy to overlook these two sleepy owls as they blend into the trunk .
PRANKSTER Dom Joly was so livid when he was slapped with a parking ticket that he took to Twitter to vent his anger – only to discover he was the victim of his own gag! The comic got a taste of his own medicine when he was tricked by a fellow joker for the first time in a decade .
COURAGEOUS climbers descend 400 metres as they manoeuvre their way through thick walls of ice .
More weather chaos is heading our way, with ice and snow already hitting areas across Birmingham .