HUDDLED together in the hollow of a tree, it would be easy to overlook these two sleepy owls as they blend into the trunk. With their brown patterned feathers and dark eyes, the beautiful owls possess the perfect forest camouflage. The Indian scops owls, a species of owl native to Asia, were photographed in a jambolan tree by Sarosh Lodhi, who noticed the birds while walking through Pench Tiger Reserve in central India.
SAILING peacefully across a river in the early morning light, a fisherman in China keeps a 1000 year old tradition alive .
VIBRANT bursts of colour fill the screen as beautiful flowers blossom in these time-lapse videos .
SWIMMING next to 40 tonne whales, dare-devil divers take the plunge with these gentle giants of the sea .
SOME OF the sea’s most terrifying creatures show their softer side as they join a group of diners for lunch .
SITTING in the middle of a vast desert, an abandoned cinema is still waiting for its first movie to be screened .
A BAMBI was dramatically caught in mid-air by a greedy Nile crocodile in a once-in-a-million flying pincer move .
Throwing a right hook as he launches onto his opponent with his gnarling teeth at the ready, this is the OTTER-LY ruthless showdown between two otters .
JUDGE BLASTED FOR LETTING PAEDO WALK FREE A PERVERT who sexually assaulted two young girls on an allotment, telling them he was brushing spiders off them, has walked free from court – because jailing him was ‘unfair’ on his family .
WITH his spiked ears and yellow and blue body, a colourful monkey bears an uncanny resemblance to Marvel Comics’ Wolverine .
A pair of adorable polar bear cubs play-fight with each other in the Alaskan snow .
AIRPORT staff have been put on alert after diet pills that come in grenade shaped containers sparked security alerts .
