An amputee who was cruelly nicknamed 'peg-leg' by school bullies has conquered her insecurities to become a model. Pretty Taylor Crisp, 19, from Leicester, was born with femur fibula ulna syndrome, which left her with a shortened femur on her right leg, no kneecap or ankle and a missing toe. After contracting an infection in her right leg, Taylor was forced to choose between life in a wheelchair or amputation.
TENNIS was a game made for three according to the first Victorian rule book .
A cheeky gorilla sticks her tongue out and plays up for the camera at Bronx Zoo .
A brave praying mantis makes an unusual friend in an Oriental garden lizard .
AT first glance these images could easily be mistaken for photographs, but they are in-fact real life drawings created using nothing but coloured pencils .
MEET the little lion of suburbia with a mane that makes him look like a mini-king of the jungle .
Swimming side by side with divers, these manatees will do anything they can to stay warm .
Raising his arms above his head and lying flat on his back, a polar bear stretches as he sprawls out across the ice .
DIVING boffins fired harpoons into 30-foot-long whale sharks in a bid to put the sea-beasts on Google Maps .
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 .
Jostling their quills into the noses of some unlucky cubs, this is the moment two feisty porcupines ALMOST defeat a pride of seven lions .
A Birmingham man inspired by sci-fi film Wall-E, has created a one- wheeled vehicle, controlled by signals from his BRAIN .
Fishermen in Myanmar have perfected an unusual fishing technique by carefully balancing on one leg .