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...
THE THOUGHT OF BECOMING shipwrecked on a remote destination would fill most holidaymakers with dread .
A DETERMINED great blue heron holds on tightly to its prey as the furry gopher attempts to wriggle free .
SPURTING water 20ft into the air, this is one well you wouldn't want to dip your bucket into .
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 .
HUDDLING under a leaf, a pair of adorable Javan scops owls take shelter from the rain .
FROM COLOURFUL autumn leaves to living trees at first glance you might miss these people blended with nature .
HOPPING onto the scales, these adorable baby Humboldt penguins are ready for their first weigh-in .
A kingfisher’s bright blue and orange feathers glisten in the sunlight as the bird dives into a lake .
A man who conned tax officials out of £34 million and funded a lavish lifestyle of luxury hotels and restaurants has been jailed for one of the longest sentences in British criminal fraud history .
THIS RING of fire in the sky is the annular solar eclipse that wowed our cousins down-under .
