RACING down the slopes in her tiny ski gear, this TWO-YEAR-OLD girl has already mastered the art of skiing. Aurora Burns, of Girdwood, Alaska, is now more at home on a snowy mountainside than inside a sandpit. Her parents, Cody Burns, 29, and Andrea Peterson, 34, insist their daughter is destined to take off. Cody, a ski patrol night supervisor, says: “Aurora has been skiing since she was in the womb as Andrea was still keen to ski throughout her pregnancy, and we were showing her ski films as soon as she arrived.
MEET the little lion of suburbia with a mane that makes him look like a mini-king of the jungle .
A northern potoo shows it is a master of disguise as it perches on a tree stump and blends into the bark .
A rare manuscript of one of Charlotte Bronte’s earliest poems went under the hammer today and fetched nearly £100,000 – double what it was expected to get .
The gunslingers are long gone and tumbleweeds have taken over at this abandoned American Wild West Theme Park in Cornwall .
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 .
FISTS fly as two gorillas take each other on in a dramatic battle .
Families in an Indian slum put their lives on the line by living on top of an ACTIVE railway track .
A SPECTRUM of colours fills the sky during this spectacular and natural display of light .
CAUSING a splash, this determined kingfisher goes hunting for dinner .
HIDDEN in the middle of the Mojave Desert, a secret oasis awaits intrepid travellers .
A terrified moose, trapped in a frozen lake, bobs her head above the icey water and awaits her rescue .
The dog having been pulled from the car - A police officer smashed a window in the blue Chrysler car to free the dog which was in visible distress .