While often referred to as the kings of the jungle, gorillas - for all their might - are notorious hydrophobes .

A grey whale and her calf greet an audience of awestruck admirers on the Pacific coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico .

Diners on this aeroplane are never disappointed with their meal, because the decommissioned aircraft is now home to an air-mazing McDonald’s restaurant .

A rare manuscript of one of Charlotte Bronte’s earliest poems went under the hammer today and fetched nearly £100,000 – double what it was expected to get .

PERCHING on top of a gate, this young barn swallow waits patiently for his mum to return with dinner .

An Italian photographer travelled to Chile where he visited several star-gazing sites, home to some of the world's most advanced telescopes, located in the spectacular setting of the Atacama desert .

A father-of-one stunned his wife of twenty-five years after revealing his secret love of POLE DANCING .

MASKED intruders look sinister but really they are a gang of urban exploring pranksters .

THIS is the moment one irritated pelican nearly swallows the entire head of his unlucky competitor .

SWIMMING in unison, millions of silverside fish dwarf the divers .

Gigantic 100ft waves create the perfect playground for dare-devil surfers from across the world .

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 .