An osprey soars through the air at 30 miles per hour before swooping down to catch its prey from a lake. Pictured in the Scottish Highlands, the bird hits the water before lifting off with a rainbow trout in its talons. The striking photographs were captured by 16-year-old student Samuel Aron, of Watford, when he visited the Rothiemurchus fishery in Aviemore, Scotland.
SWIMMING next to 40 tonne whales, dare-devil divers take the plunge with these gentle giants of the sea .
AN American accountant has grown the world's biggest MELON and smashed his way into the record books with his mammoth 350 .
MESMERIZING night sky photographs offer a spellbinding look at the stars .
In the calm waters of Greenland, gigantic icebergs dwarf everything around them .
A hungry hippo is seconds away from catching a bird in its gigantic jaws .
The beds are consumed by moss instead of customers at this abandoned hotel .
FROM MRS Patmore to Lady Sybil, these barking mad illustrations show the WOOF-er side of some of our most loved Downton characters .
A mining town in Australia’s outback appears to be completely deserted, but its residents have escaped the scorching heat by living in underground caves .
WITH HIS PAW covering his mouth, this cheeky cub looks amused by something .
A proud gorilla mum welcomes her newborn baby western lowland gorilla, a critically endangered species .
A dog was SOW close to death after she dangerously swallowed a two-inch NEEDLE-Cute Shih Tzu Daisy could have pierced her intestines after eating the long needle and thread after finding it on the carpet .
Meet the human CCTV: a PCSO with a memory for faces so sharp he has apprehended more than 130 suspects in the last year alone with his eagle eyed talents .