A KITTEN'S teaparty and rat's playing dominoes are the bizarre creations by one of Britain's great eccentrics pictured in an incredible new book. Other spookily compelling taxidermy images show a bird's funeral complete with casket, a kitten's wedding and a well-dressed stuffed monkey riding a goat. The stuffed curios were all created by Victorian Englishman Walter Potter, who originally displayed his strange taxidermy creatures to the awe-struck paying public from The White Lion Pub which doubled as his museum in Bramber, Sussex. Brought up in Bramber from 1835 and dying in 1918, Potter's museum continued to entertain until 1970, when it passed to the Jamaica Inn of Brighton. In 2003 the surviving collection was auctioned for half-a-million pounds to various buyers from across the world.
AN American accountant has grown the world's biggest MELON and smashed his way into the record books with his mammoth 350 .
A group of otters put on a show of aqua aerobics, as they raise their flippers perfectly in sync .
These beautiful photographs show how these playful pods of dolphins make their own fun by gliding, flipping and spinning through the air whilst enjoying the sun on their backs .
A Canadian couple celebrated their engagement by recreating iconic moments from the film The Notebook .
A PENSIONER was left with a fractured jaw after being beaten and robbed outside his home in Birmingham last weekend .
With the full moon looming behind him, this polar bear nestles down for the night .
A pair of adorable polar bear cubs play-fight with each other in the Alaskan snow .
FORGET Thorpe Park this summer as this is a 50 mile-per-hour ride over the Colorado River CANYON .
ESCAPING A LANDFILL FUTURE, these amazing science fiction inspired sculptures are made from everyday objects .
A lazy otter finds the ideal spot to soak up the sun and sleep off his lunch .
These photographs of extreme weather capture storms furiously rolling across the sky above America .
A panic stricken kitten that got her head stuck in a car tyre has been freed by quick thinking RSPCA staff .