IN a galaxy not so far away lies a magical display of lights that could be the latest image from NASA. However this natural wonder is in fact on planet earth inside of a grotto containing hundreds of thousands of Glowworms. Tourists are dazzled as they sail through the world's only cave that is filled with the incandescent insects. These amazing images are from the Waitomo Caves in New Zealand, a unique location formed from 30 million years of volcano activity.
LUMINOUS green rocks could easily be a beach from Superman's homeland of Krypton .
A lively lemon shark grins into the camera and showcases his impressive teeth .
AN American accountant has grown the world's biggest MELON and smashed his way into the record books with his mammoth 350 .
A trout manages to escape the jaws of a hungry cormorant - only to find itself back inside the bird's long beak .
Leaping out of the ocean, a group of gentoo penguins fly through the air before landing safely on an iceberg .
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 .
TOMORROW (Saturday) marks the 28th anniversary of the nuclear disaster that left the city of Chernobyl devastated .
WITH SNOW COVERING the ground around them, these two polar bears play fight .
With the vivid red smoke billowing into the sky amid the misty sand dunes, these are the blissful views provided at the break of dawn at a volcano .
A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy .
