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...
BLOWING bubbles underwater, this adorable polar bear slides into his tank for a playful dip .
WITH HIS PAW covering his mouth, this cheeky cub looks amused by something .
THIS alien-like bug would look more at home in outer-space but it can actually be found wriggling around here on Earth .
At least three people have been killed and more than 100 injured, some seriously, in two explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon .
HUDDLED together in the hollow of a tree, it would be easy to overlook these two sleepy owls as they blend into the trunk .
YOU’VE heard of the northern lights now feast your eyes on the natural wonder of the SOUTHERN lights .
WITH a paw in the air and his tongue hanging from his mouth, it is clear to see that this little groundhog is struggling to wake up and leave behind the comfort of his burrow .
WELCOME to the drawing room that is home to the £100K world’s greatest collection of Margaret Thatcher autographed objects .
A diver looks like a minnow as she swims alongside a gigantic whale shark, the largest species of fish on the planet .
A brave praying mantis makes an unusual friend in an Oriental garden lizard .
FROM THE world famous Girl with a Pearl Earring painting to a jaguar in the grass, these incredible drawings are created from coloured ballpoint pens .