THESE kingfishers prove no rod is needed as they go fishing for their dinner. With a splash, they dive down into the water to catch their next meal. The photographs were captured by Italian photographer Alessandro Rossini, 33, on the banks of the river Adda in Italy." In these pictures you can see how marvellous nature is,” says Alessandro, of Lissone.
A lazy tree frog, tired of hopping along a branch, chooses the slowest form of transport when it jumps on top of an unsuspecting snail .
This longhorn beetle demon-strates a dark side as it looks just like the devil .
A once bustling gold rush town in Mono County, California now stands completed deserted .
With their guts spewing and eyes hanging out, these are the cuddly toys children might be reluctant to curl up to .
This hungry white tiger has just one thing on her mind - to taste fresh meat .
THIS DANGER-mad female pensioner could be the oldest Brit to cage dive with CROCODILES .
COURAGEOUS CLIMBERS scale frozen waterfalls in Canada, as the ice threatens to collapse beneath them .
NOT YOUR everyday selfie, this plucky diver poses with some of the scariest predators in the ocean .
A mischievous fox cub demonstrates his playful side by biting his sibling’s tail .
A diver looks like a minnow as she swims alongside a gigantic whale shark, the largest species of fish on the planet .
The gunslingers are long gone and tumbleweeds have taken over at this abandoned American Wild West Theme Park in Cornwall .
Pic By HotSpot Media - PARROT RIDES ON THE TUBE - THIS pretty boy could be forgiven for forgetting his Oyst-aaarrrgh-card .