WITH his spiked ears and yellow and blue body, a colourful monkey bears an uncanny resemblance to Marvel Comics’ Wolverine .

A 20st mum-of-four who was dangerously obese has lost half her body weight after her son drew her as a BLOB at school .

At least three people have been killed and more than 100 injured, some seriously, in two explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon .

CLINGING onto nothing but ice, this brave climber reaches heights of 1000 FEET as he scales frozen solid waterfalls .

A young woman who once weighed the same as 12-year-old girl has told how a severely malnourished cat helped save her life and beat her anorexia .

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

This longhorn beetle demon-strates a dark side as it looks just like the devil .

Magical photos of your baby smiling for the first time are a priceless treasure for many a proud parent .

COURAGEOUS climbers descend 400 metres as they manoeuvre their way through thick walls of ice .

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

A British photographer has captured the beauty of London in a stunning series of landscapes shots .

Playing, splashing and generally messing around, these polar bears show they certainly have a soft spot for the water, and not just each other .