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...
HIDDEN in the middle of the Mojave Desert, a secret oasis awaits intrepid travellers .
SEA LIFE and greenery in one shot show nature at its very best .
A PENSIONER was left with a fractured jaw after being beaten and robbed outside his home in Birmingham last weekend .
INSIDE Britain's last Naval hospital where scurvy was cured looks like an NHS time capsule .
STAIRWAY obsessed photographers have captured psychedelic shots that will mesmerise you .
AN ADORABLE one-eyed kitten has been dubbed the 'pirate cat' because of his pirate-like facial expressions .
CONTRASTING settings reveal some of England’s most beautiful landscapes in all their glory .
It's incredible to think anyone could live in such horrendous squalor - yet two men have been prosecuted for keeping their homes in such revolting conditions that it was no longer fit for their animals .
THIS is the EXPLOSIVE moment when a 50 metre high pylon came crashing down to earth in a rural field .
AT 4,800 metres high and just three metres wide, this is the most dangerous road in the world .
A carefree bear cub reclines in the water with his feet raised in the air .