From vibrant blues to dazzling oranges, these eye catching hummingbirds proudly show off their impressive colours. Daniel Parent photographed the birds as they fed from an array of tropical flowers in Rio Segundo, Costa Rica. The 53-year-old photographer, of Gatineau, Quebec, says: “These little creatures are truly a spectacle to witness.
From a floating jelly fish to a relaxed seal, Britain’s unappreciated beach life is captured above and below the water .
FLAUNTING its new accessory, a fashionable green dumpy tree frog poses for the camera while wearing a SNAIL as a hat .
A proud gorilla mum welcomes her newborn baby western lowland gorilla, a critically endangered species .
Two people have been arrested after a man and woman were shot dead at a house in the Midlands in the early hours of this morning .
TENNIS was a game made for three according to the first Victorian rule book .
RAISING his flipper, this two day old seal pup gives a wave to the camera .
From vivid greens to glowing pinks, the colours of the aurora borealis fill the night sky above a snow covered Lapland .
HUDDLED together on a branch, a pair of adorable Javan scops owls soak up the sun .
AN ANOREXIC dental nurse whose weight plummeted to less than four stone has won her NHS fight for more treatment .
Meet the human CCTV: a PCSO with a memory for faces so sharp he has apprehended more than 130 suspects in the last year alone with his eagle eyed talents .
A young otter wades through a lake with his eyes set on an older rival’s fish .
While the various controversies rumble on regarding transport, security issues and overly-officious copyright enforcement, a couple of designers is saying what we're all thinking about the Olympics - and putting it on bags .