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 pair of chicks bravely decided to befriend a python, despite being the snake's favourite choice of food .
ARMED with her camera, bikini and flippers, this brave diver goes swimming with SHARKS .
GETTING behind the camera, this monkey practices his photography skills on his friends .
A frilled lizard appears to be belting out a tune as it sits in a tree with its mouth open wide .
A PENSIONER was left with a fractured jaw after being beaten and robbed outside his home in Birmingham last weekend .
CONTRASTING settings reveal some of England’s most beautiful landscapes in all their glory .
COURAGEOUS CLIMBERS scale frozen waterfalls in Canada, as the ice threatens to collapse beneath them .
CAUSING a splash, this determined kingfisher goes hunting for dinner .
The beds are consumed by moss instead of customers at this abandoned hotel .
IN a galaxy not so far away lies a magical display of lights that could be the latest image from NASA .
A DETERMINED great blue heron holds on tightly to its prey as the furry gopher attempts to wriggle free .
A little brown bear cub shows his doting mum that she is always on parent duty as he uses her as a scratching post .