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
HUNDREDS of colour coordinated yarns lie abandoned in this once thriving textile mill .
AN EXERCISING turtle and an ice-skating chick are hardly everyday exploits in the animal community .
WITH A wide smile plastered across his face, this little gecko is ready for his close up .
Families in an Indian slum put their lives on the line by living on top of an ACTIVE railway track .
AN ANGRY giraffe gave a bush-riding cyclist a scare when he stomped his £2K bike into the dirt .
A fox takes a tumble and lands on his head when he tries to fend off a pair of eagles in Japan .
WITH his spiked ears and yellow and blue body, a colourful monkey bears an uncanny resemblance to Marvel Comics’ Wolverine .
COURAGEOUS CLIMBERS scale frozen waterfalls in Canada, as the ice threatens to collapse beneath them .
An aerial view of flooding in Gloucestershire .
STARING intently into the camera, a polar bear appears to be lost in thought while relaxing in the snow .
LINED up one by one on a deer’s back, these little birds give their wings a break as they catch a ride across London .
An Australian beach is illuminated by an enticing neon blue glow as a rare phenomenon lights up the water .