Puckering up for a kiss, an affectionate pair of owls share a smooch for Valentine's Day. The loved-up owls were photographed by American photographer Lori Shaw, 54, after she spotted them at the Homosassa Springs State Wildlife Park in Florida. ‘The owls were being very affectionate with each other, cuddling, kissing and grooming each other,’ says Lori, of Crystal River, Florida. ‘I thought it was really cute the way they were carrying on with each other.
A SPECTRUM of colours fills the sky during this spectacular and natural display of light .
Suspended FIFTY metres in the air, this is the last place that you would expect to find a fine dining experience .
SPARKLING bright inside their box, it’s hard to believe these diamonds are made from the cremated remains of the deceased .
Raising his arms above his head and lying flat on his back, a polar bear stretches as he sprawls out across the ice .
DIVING boffins fired harpoons into 30-foot-long whale sharks in a bid to put the sea-beasts on Google Maps .
AN American accountant has grown the world's biggest MELON and smashed his way into the record books with his mammoth 350 .
POWERFUL bolts of lightning illuminate the night sky in an incredible autumn storm over the Sardinian coastline .
A fox takes a tumble and lands on his head when he tries to fend off a pair of eagles in Japan .
While often referred to as the kings of the jungle, gorillas - for all their might - are notorious hydrophobes .
BREATHING life back into old photographs, these black and white images are transformed by colour .
IN THE not so MISTY MOUNTAINS of Wiltshire, there lies an abandoned hobbit house .