THERE IS NEVER a dull or dry day in the office when you're a REAL LIFE MERMAID. With their colourful tails and bikini tops, these girls appear to have splashed right out of a Disney movie. The mermaids can be found at Weeki Wachee Springs State Park, Florida, performing in the underwater theatre. Marketing and PR Manager for the park John Athanason, 46, says: 'When I first saw the mermaids performing, I was completely mesmerised. 'They have such an ease under the water, and are able to do a job unlike any other with such effortlessness
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 .
LEAPING for joy five-feet above the waves this baby whale cutie is saying HELLO to its family after being lost .
Sitting all alone on drift ice in the Arctic Ocean, this lonely little fella looks lost .
PAWS for thought as you feast your eyes on this rare bear bathing session .
MEET the little lion of suburbia with a mane that makes him look like a mini-king of the jungle .
An Australian explorer has travelled the globe with a toy pig, known as Travel Piggy, in search of a missing cuddly companion .
VIBRANT bursts of colour fill the screen as beautiful flowers blossom in these time-lapse videos .
A PENSIONER was left with a fractured jaw after being beaten and robbed outside his home in Birmingham last weekend .
FROM THE world famous Girl with a Pearl Earring painting to a jaguar in the grass, these incredible drawings are created from coloured ballpoint pens .
This longhorn beetle demon-strates a dark side as it looks just like the devil .
Here's a collection of art for the DIGIT-AL age as these fascinating illusions of landmarks, places and even a banana are made using just a pair of hands .