WITH A wide smile plastered across his face, this little gecko is ready for his close up. The smiley tokay gecko was photographed by photographer Angi Wallace in her home in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The 47-year-old says: “I placed this gecko on a branch deliberately to take some photographs. “He has the cutest face, however if I wave my hand near him he opens his mouth as a form of defensive behaviour.
DIPPING his head into the vase of water, this little squirrel takes a refreshing break from an afternoon of eating .
HOTSPOT MEDIA - MILEY MASH-UP: MILEY CYRUS’ naked wrecking ball vid has been lampooned in this side-spitting photo-mashup .
WITH SNOW COVERING the ground around them, these two polar bears play fight .
SQUABBLING over the last piece of grain, these hungry squirrels are determined to stock up on as much food as possible .
Fishermen in Myanmar have perfected an unusual fishing technique by carefully balancing on one leg .
With luminous colours and alien- like features, these magical mushrooms look like they belong on another planet .
AN American accountant has grown the world's biggest MELON and smashed his way into the record books with his mammoth 350 .
With the vivid red smoke billowing into the sky amid the misty sand dunes, these are the blissful views provided at the break of dawn at a volcano .
COURAGEOUS climbers descend 400 metres as they manoeuvre their way through thick walls of ice .
A BLIND man was battered with a brick in a sickening attack by two thugs .
HUDDLING under a leaf, a pair of adorable Javan scops owls take shelter from the rain .
SITTING quietly at the edge of the lake, these two baby bears watch and learn as the adults hunt for fish .