FROM ICE bubbles to boiling lava, these photographs highlight the stunning shapes and patterns found in nature. The series of extraordinary images were taken by German software engineer Thorsten Scheuermann after he decided to examine his surroundings. A trip to the city of Kalapana in Hawaii, home to the Kilauea Volcano, provided Thorsten with the setting for his lava picture, while a visit to the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon offered him the opportunity to photograph ice bubbles up-close. The 37-year-old, now of Washington, USA, said: 'These are sights that can gain greater significance and have their beauty exposed when excluding everything else around them.'
The claws come out at meal time as a group of white tailed eagles brawl over road-kill .
A PENSIONER was left with a fractured jaw after being beaten and robbed outside his home in Birmingham last weekend .
From a floating jelly fish to a relaxed seal, Britain’s unappreciated beach life is captured above and below the water .
AN American accountant has grown the world's biggest MELON and smashed his way into the record books with his mammoth 350 .
Hot on the heels of a little rabbit, this cheetah is on a mission to catch his prey .
Fishermen in Myanmar have perfected an unusual fishing technique by carefully balancing on one leg .
A SPECTACULAR array of stars fills the night sky as they soar over this active volcano .
A BAMBI was dramatically caught in mid-air by a greedy Nile crocodile in a once-in-a-million flying pincer move .
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BURSTING from the water, a beautiful but deadly Sumatran tiger jumps for food in an Indonesian zoo .
WELCOME to the Temple of Zoom where you can “experience” sliding down a Mayan temple into shark infested waters .
HIDDEN in the middle of the Mojave Desert, a secret oasis awaits intrepid travellers .