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 SNOW COVERING the ground around them, these two polar bears play fight .
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 .
WITH A LITTLE cap of fresh snow resting on his head, this squirrel tries his best to pull off his new look .
PUSHING the diver out of his way, this little sea turtle shows he’s not in the mood for photographs .
SWIMMING next to 40 tonne whales, dare-devil divers take the plunge with these gentle giants of the sea .
A diver attempts to control rising numbers of lionfish by feeding the venomous species to Caribbean reef sharks .
With stunning scenery and otherworldly vistas, Iceland’s rural beauty is inescapable – especially for Hollywood .
A northern potoo shows it is a master of disguise as it perches on a tree stump and blends into the bark .
From vibrant blues to dazzling oranges, these eye catching hummingbirds proudly show off their impressive colours .
Raising his arms above his head and lying flat on his back, a polar bear stretches as he sprawls out across the ice .
An osprey soars through the air at 30 miles per hour before swooping down to catch its prey from a lake .
A rare manuscript of one of Charlotte Bronte’s earliest poems went under the hammer today and fetched nearly £100,000 – double what it was expected to get .