An eight-year-old boy who lost his legs and left hand to meningitis is standing tall after learning to walk on his prosthetic limbs. Despite receiving the meningitis C vaccination as a baby, Kye Vincent was diagnosed with meningococcal septicaemia earlier this year on Mother’s Day, just six days after his baby sister, Layla was born. The deadly illness ravaged his body and medics were forced to induce him into a coma to give him the best chance of survival. Thankfully, the plucky youngster has battled against the odds and is looking forward to spending Christmas with his family in his new adapted home.
A proud gorilla mum welcomes her newborn baby western lowland gorilla, a critically endangered species .
A diver looks like a minnow as she swims alongside a gigantic whale shark, the largest species of fish on the planet .
LIFTING their heads high and bumping beaks, these aggressive pelicans clash over fish .
This frozen lighthouse in Michigan could easily be mistaken for a still from the snow swept disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow .
The lighthouses of Brittany, from Brest to Le Conquet, stand tall on France’s north-western coast against stunning scenery .
STRIKING photos capture nature at its most raw and powerful during Earth’s most electrifying event .
This is the moment a nimble red fox and a lumbering Alaskan brown bear were locked in a tense stand-off .
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 .
WITHOUT a care in the world, this little chimpanzee shows off her gymnastic skills as she swings around her enclosure .
BRAIDED, sculpted and beaded, these are the eye-catching hairstyles worn by the tribal women of Angola .
ROLLING around in the snow, these young brown bears take a break from their play fight to share a tender hug with one another .
