A grey whale and her calf greet an audience of awestruck admirers on the Pacific coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico. The magnificent mammals swim up to several boats full of tourists and get so close that the passengers can stroke the mother and baby whale. The special moment was photographed by lawyer Andrea Izzotti, 47, of Genovia, Italy. Andrea says: “The mother was milking her calf in shallow waters, but they are very curious animals and they came up to our boats to see the humans.
FINALLY catching a meal, a pair of great white egrets fight over their dinner .
A TEN-THOUSAND square foot wide Avatar-style grove is such a beauty it will leave you feeling VINE .
Pint- size Maci Winters only has one wish this Christmas - to be as tall as the other boys and girls on the school playground .
From the tails of fighter planes to black and white checked buildings, graveyards take different and unusual forms around the world .
SPURTING water 20ft into the air, this is one well you wouldn't want to dip your bucket into .
A photographer has transformed women with alopecia into stunning sirens - showing that bald is beautiful .
A Zumba-mad grandma has lost almost 14st after becoming addicted to the popular dance craze .
Jostling their quills into the noses of some unlucky cubs, this is the moment two feisty porcupines ALMOST defeat a pride of seven lions .
A man who was stabbed ten times in a frenzied and random attack has told how, two years on, he is too scared to leave his house without his STAB VEST .
Throwing a right hook as he launches onto his opponent with his gnarling teeth at the ready, this is the OTTER-LY ruthless showdown between two otters .