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.
A SERENE turquoise glow glimmers from underneath these powerful icebergs .
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A DETERMINED great blue heron holds on tightly to its prey as the furry gopher attempts to wriggle free .
Struggling home entertainment chain Blockbuster has been slammed for advertising its workers' jobs while they are still in them in order to scare them into working harder .
IN THE not so MISTY MOUNTAINS of Wiltshire, there lies an abandoned hobbit house .
COURAGEOUS climbers descend 400 metres as they manoeuvre their way through thick walls of ice .
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STARING open-mouthed into the camera, this shocked fish looks out of place in the middle of its angry friends .
FLAUNTING its new accessory, a fashionable green dumpy tree frog poses for the camera while wearing a SNAIL as a hat .
A photographer from the United Arab Emirates travelled to Pakistan where he captured the lives of local people in a series of expressive portraits .
A hungry hippo is seconds away from catching a bird in its gigantic jaws .
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