A group of whale sharks gather to feed underneath a fisherman’s boat off the coast of Papua, Indonesia. The gentle giants are surrounded by fascinated divers, including Italian photographer Andrea Izzotti. The 47-year-old captured these underwater images during a dive in Cenderawasih Bay, off Papua, Indonesia.
Playing, splashing and generally messing around, these polar bears show they certainly have a soft spot for the water, and not just each other .
These are the men with one of the most unpleasant jobs in the world .
A young otter wades through a lake with his eyes set on an older rival’s fish .
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 .
A striped marlin means business as it spots lunch and spears a small fish .
A diving guide leaves a shark completely docile and balanced in the palm of his hand .
Sam Notaro built his own flood defences to protect his four-bedroom home in Moorland, Somerset Flooding is likely to get worse around Somerset as groundwater levels continue to rise .
Leaping out of the ocean, a group of gentoo penguins fly through the air before landing safely on an iceberg .
A proud gorilla mum welcomes her newborn baby western lowland gorilla, a critically endangered species .
ROLLING up snow in its tiny paws, this little squirrel is looking for a snowball fight .
The lighthouses of Brittany, from Brest to Le Conquet, stand tall on France’s north-western coast against stunning scenery .
WITH SNOW COVERING the ground around them, these two polar bears play fight .