An Australian beach is illuminated by an enticing neon blue glow as a rare phenomenon lights up the water. The supernatural scene on the east coast of Australia was caused by millions of plankton omitting light. The plankton, pictured in Jervis Bay, New South Wales, were photographed by Andy Hutchinson. Andy, of Berry, Australia, says: “These bio-luminescent plankton are tiny creatures called dinoflagellates, which emit light in order to evade predators.
FLAUNTING its new accessory, a fashionable green dumpy tree frog poses for the camera while wearing a SNAIL as a hat .
These are the amazing close up pictures of North Korea's mass games - after photographers were previously banned from taking shots so close to the dazzling formation dances .
GETTING behind the camera, this monkey practices his photography skills on his friends .
An aerial view of flooding in Gloucestershire .
A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy .
ALL IS not as it seems in these deceptive cityscapes .
Families in an Indian slum put their lives on the line by living on top of an ACTIVE railway track .
A diver looks like a minnow as she swims alongside a gigantic whale shark, the largest species of fish on the planet .
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 .
Animal rescue volunteers have told how a cat riddled with cancer was forced to ripped off its own ears after it was abandoned by its owners .