Puckering up for a kiss, an affectionate pair of owls share a smooch for Valentine's Day .

A DARING duo take their chances and scale this spectacular 82ft frozen waterfall before it collapses .

A woman has shed half her body weight after undergoing a gastric sleeve op to shrink her stomach .

These images of vintage cars, bikes and vans, pictured all over the world, could easily have come from a globetrotting petrol-head’s photo album .

A DETERMINED great blue heron holds on tightly to its prey as the furry gopher attempts to wriggle free .

This is the moment a nimble red fox and a lumbering Alaskan brown bear were locked in a tense stand-off .

Balanced on one leg, a frog assumes the crane kick martial arts stance made famous in the movie The Karate Kid .

Peering curiously into a basket hanging off the arms of a snowman, this little squirrel appears fascinated by the snowy figure .

FROM MRS Patmore to Lady Sybil, these barking mad illustrations show the WOOF-er side of some of our most loved Downton characters .

A diver attempts to control rising numbers of lionfish by feeding the venomous species to Caribbean reef sharks .

SWIMMING slowly towards the shore, a small group of bottlenose dolphins arrive for breakfast at a beach in Western Australia .

SOARING at 112 miles per hour through the air, this petite blonde certainly lives up to her title as the fastest flying woman in the world .