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
THIS DANGER-mad female pensioner could be the oldest Brit to cage dive with CROCODILES .
The beds are consumed by moss instead of customers at this abandoned hotel .
A brave praying mantis makes an unusual friend in an Oriental garden lizard .
HUNDREDS of hot air balloons decorate the sky above Turkey as the rising sun illuminates the spectacular scenery below .
A PENSIONER was left with a fractured jaw after being beaten and robbed outside his home in Birmingham last weekend .
THIS alien-like bug would look more at home in outer-space but it can actually be found wriggling around here on Earth .
Kevin Silva, 52 from Indiana in the USA, has spent an estimated £65K ($100K) on Batman trinkets over the years, and even keeps his 2,500-item haul in his very own basement 'Bat Cave' .
SOARING through the air, a hungry white-tailed kite prepares to snatch a vole from his mother’s claws .
SITTING in the middle of a vast desert, an abandoned cinema is still waiting for its first movie to be screened .
SKIPPING on the spot, an adorable little owl embraces the 'running man' challenge .
Exploding out of the water, a great white shark performs a backflip during a hunt for seals .