Leaping out of the ocean, a group of gentoo penguins fly through the air before landing safely on an iceberg. Shaking their tail feathers dry, the seabirds take a few moments to waddle back towards the water's edge before taking the plunge again. The amusing scene was captured by photography guide David Merron as he watched the penguins from a boat near Danco Island, Antarctica.
Playing, splashing and generally messing around, these polar bears show they certainly have a soft spot for the water, and not just each other .
BEAUTIFULLY lit by the dim glow of lanterns, a cave in Iceland is transformed into the perfect wedding venue .
AN American accountant has grown the world's biggest MELON and smashed his way into the record books with his mammoth 350 .
COURAGEOUS CLIMBERS scale frozen waterfalls in Canada, as the ice threatens to collapse beneath them .
Lying angelically with a range of expressions etched on their tiny faces, little bundles of joy are innocently captured in their first few days in these adorable photographs .
A BIKINI swim with jellyfish sounds like the most painful past-time on the planet .
Balanced on one leg, a frog assumes the crane kick martial arts stance made famous in the movie The Karate Kid .
COURAGEOUS climbers descend 400 metres as they manoeuvre their way through thick walls of ice .
An intrepid explorer hopes to be reunited with his travel partner, after his cuddly toy companion was stolen .
Megan Brailsford, 32, from Cambridgeshire, met Daniel Dugdale, 29, in September 2020 .
SAT with his arms folded and a cross look on his face, this Gorilla looks like he's had enough of the Christmas holidays already .
INSIDE Britain's last Naval hospital where scurvy was cured looks like an NHS time capsule .