WELCOME to the real Frankenstein's lab where carefully pickled creatures are left to stew in jars .

WITH A STERN look of determination on their faces, these adorable pooches perfect their doggy paddle as they dive head first into a swimming pool .

HMS Ark Royal arrives in the Turkish port of Aliaga at the ship scrapping firm Leyal’s yard .

PERCHED on a branch, these two frogs hold hands as they look into the camera .

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

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

Beautiful turquoise waves rise and fall in a series of stunning images taken along the coastline of south-eastern Australia .

An adorable young fallow deer peers over its shoulder and is greeted by a cheeky jackdaw crow sitting on its back .

15-foot-long great white sharks on the hunt, in False Bay, South Africa - SHOCK and awe pictures of 15-foot-long great whites on the hunt will leave you stunned .

A project to create an underwater tribute to the stone Moai statues of Easter Island ended in disaster when 15 replica structures were destroyed after toppling from a boat and into the sea .

With a dust covered coat hung from a wardrobe door and a pair of glasses left on a shelf, a remote farmhouse lies abandoned in the Welsh countryside .

THIS LITTLE squirrel tries to keep himself snug as snow starts to fall around him .