A diver looks like a minnow as she swims alongside a gigantic whale shark, the largest species of fish on the planet. The docile giant, weighing a massive 66,000lbs, happily shares its waters during dinner time. The whale shark is a filter feeder and consumes plankton and small fish by swimming with its formidable jaws open. The amazing images were taken by Belgian photographer Ellen Cuylaerts, 44, on a trip to Isla Mujeres, Mexico.
A grey whale and her calf greet an audience of awestruck admirers on the Pacific coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico .
PICKING up a tiny tea-pot with its paws, a little red squirrel struggles to prepare its morning tea .
Sam Notaro built his own flood defences to protect his four-bedroom home in Moorland, Somerset Flooding is likely to get worse around Somerset as groundwater levels continue to rise .
With an abandoned tricycle sitting in an empty corridor, this derelict but once grand mansion could be the setting for The Shining .
THE THOUGHT OF BECOMING shipwrecked on a remote destination would fill most holidaymakers with dread .
With no luck at the front of the bus, the deer runs around the center seats trying to escape through the window – THIS is the astonishing moment a DEER crashed through the front windshield of a bus before it went hysterically running around the vehicle .
AN American accountant has grown the world's biggest MELON and smashed his way into the record books with his mammoth 350 .
WIDE EYED and staring straight down the lens of the camera, this intrigued seal is ready for his close up .
At least three people have been killed and more than 100 injured, some seriously, in two explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon .
A rare manuscript of one of Charlotte Bronte’s earliest poems went under the hammer today and fetched nearly £100,000 – double what it was expected to get .
This cheeky chappie is getting into all kinds of monkey business as he enjoys cooling off on a scorching hot day .
An Australian beach is illuminated by an enticing neon blue glow as a rare phenomenon lights up the water .