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...
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 .
THIS ONE of a kind experience brings a whole new meaning to the phrase 'a coffee to go' .
SWIMMING in unison, millions of silverside fish dwarf the divers .
This tranquil setting stretches for miles as the sun sets behind the mountain .
SWIMMING slowly towards the shore, a small group of bottlenose dolphins arrive for breakfast at a beach in Western Australia .
A trio of ants are locked in a tug of war over a fly as they pull the bug by its legs .
From vivid greens to glowing pinks, the colours of the aurora borealis fill the night sky above a snow covered Lapland .
A Little owl looks down the lens of a camera and gives the photographer a cheeky wink .
BURSTING from the water, a beautiful but deadly Sumatran tiger jumps for food in an Indonesian zoo .
EXPERTLY camouflaged, this clever panther chameleon knows how to catch its prey by surprise .
A Canadian couple celebrated their engagement by recreating iconic moments from the film The Notebook .
A young orangutan comes over all shy as she hides her face behind a broken bucket .