OPEN mouthed and wide eyed this little squirrel appears startled. Taken aback, he sits with his hands clasped and jaw dropped. The surprised eastern grey squirrel was photographed by Lithuanian photographer Giedrius Stakauskas, 38, on a trip to Bushy Park in London. ‘Even though his little face looks like he’s in a state of complete surprise, he was actually yawning and very sleepy,’ says Giedrius, now of London.
An Italian photographer travelled to Chile where he visited several star-gazing sites, home to some of the world's most advanced telescopes, located in the spectacular setting of the Atacama desert .
With blue waves tumbling over them, these surfers glide underneath a tunnel of water .
BURSTING from the water, a beautiful but deadly Sumatran tiger jumps for food in an Indonesian zoo .
DASHING through the snow, this little stoat is on the lookout for a Christmas feast .
A man who conned tax officials out of £34 million and funded a lavish lifestyle of luxury hotels and restaurants has been jailed for one of the longest sentences in British criminal fraud history .
SOARING through the air, a hungry white-tailed kite prepares to snatch a vole from his mother’s claws .
A Birmingham man inspired by sci-fi film Wall-E, has created a one- wheeled vehicle, controlled by signals from his BRAIN .
LYING flat out on his back, this little meerkat makes the most of the English sunshine .
More weather chaos is heading our way, with ice and snow already hitting areas across Birmingham .
MEET the underwater British seal who is so friendly he loves to grapple divers like a friendly puppy dog .
IN a galaxy far, far away, this collection of stunning interstellar formations will leave you STARSTRUCK .