LINED up one by one on a deer’s back, these little birds give their wings a break as they catch a ride across London. Aware of her hitchhikers, the female red deer seems unfazed as the starlings arrive. The scene was photographed by 16-year-old student Samuel Aron on a day out in Richmond Park, London. Samuel, of Watford, says: ‘I have seen this behaviour before from starlings, but I have never seen so many on one deer.
A cricket perches on an unusual seat after crawling up the snout of a crocodile .
This longhorn beetle demon-strates a dark side as it looks just like the devil .
As sunlight cascades through its vibrant stained glass windows, every inch of the Nasir-ol-Mulk Mosque bursts with colour .
FROM MRS Patmore to Lady Sybil, these barking mad illustrations show the WOOF-er side of some of our most loved Downton characters .
INSIDE Britain's last Naval hospital where scurvy was cured looks like an NHS time capsule .
A pair of adorable polar bear cubs play-fight with each other in the Alaskan snow .
STRIKING photos capture nature at its most raw and powerful during Earth’s most electrifying event .
CARRYING a fully grown goat on his back, this five-year-old boy is a child shepherd in the mountains of northern Ethiopia .
WITHOUT A care in the world, this little snow monkey puts his feet up and settles in for a snooze .
A little brown bear cub shows his doting mum that she is always on parent duty as he uses her as a scratching post .
THE CRAZE for mimicking the video game Streetfighter has spread to the streets of London .