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 lively lemon shark grins into the camera and showcases his impressive teeth .
A cricket perches on an unusual seat after crawling up the snout of a crocodile .
TRYING their best to wriggle away, three adorable tiger cubs receive their health checks at Chester Zoo .
A carefree bear cub reclines in the water with his feet raised in the air .
A blanket of fog is lit up by the colourful glowing lights of the city below .
A hungry hippo is seconds away from catching a bird in its gigantic jaws .
With a dust covered coat hung from a wardrobe door and a pair of glasses left on a shelf, a remote farmhouse lies abandoned in the Welsh countryside .
MESMERIZING night sky photographs offer a spellbinding look at the stars .
DIVING boffins fired harpoons into 30-foot-long whale sharks in a bid to put the sea-beasts on Google Maps .
The gunslingers are long gone and tumbleweeds have taken over at this abandoned American Wild West Theme Park in Cornwall .
